To write music is to raise a ladder without a wall to lean it against. There is no scaffolding: the building under construction is held in balance only by the miracle of a kind of internal logic, an innate sense of proportion.
创作音乐就像扶起一架没有墙支撑的梯子。这里没有脚手架:在建的建筑只有通过一种内在逻辑的奇迹，一种天生的比例感，才能保持平衡。