I never had secure, belonging feelings with this society [in China].

Of course, there [in China] has to be chaos. It has to be crazy, and I don't think there's anything wrong about it except this government, which is really incapable of doing anything meaningful.

I spent a lot of time standing on street corners [of New York City] talking to local residents. I spent time in bookstores and galleries. But most of the time, I really did not have much to do.

Everyone of us is a potential convict.

If a nation cannot face its past, it has no future.

If there's the right condition, I always want to express the concept or ideas in a very independent way.

A historical property has morals and ethics of the society that created it and it can be revived. What I mean is that we can discover new possibilities from the process of dismantling, transforming, and recreating.