Imagine one day, the hateful world around you collapses. And it is your attitude, words and actions that put an end to it. Will you be excited?

To express yourself needs a reason, but expressing yourself is the reason.

We never really see the global situation as a total situation. Today's political leaders are still lacking of the vision. They very often just try to cope with their own election, their own popularity, solving the problem or selling the ideas to meet their own voters. By doing that, it creates a great imbalance in terms of making deals or treaty or all those things. Even today the borders they're seeing the physical borders are very different from the political borders. Because all those powers are so connected, and you cannot even see whose interest in what move.

My understanding of Chinese history is limited. So far, I have only scratched its surface; I wish I could find out more.

Now many enterprises are made by individuals, so the attitude has started to change.

I believe [the architecture firm] Herzog and de Meuron and our collaboration made the product the best it could be.

New York was not a romantic city at [80th]. Nobody knows who you are and you don't have to care about anybody else. It's a very cold city, I should say.