I am an architect. I try to feel the transparency in contemporary buildings and I try to understand the transparency in Zen poetry. I just want to mix all those things.

I prefer to give a dollar to a thousand people.

The Indians are a marginal people in Guatemala just like I am a marginal person in the first world.

If you can explain a poem, it is not a poem. Poetry has to be inexplicable.

I am an architect. I try to feel the transparency in contemporary buildings and I try to understand the transparency in Zen poetry. I just want to mix all those things.

When you're somebody who has the pretension to make art, it's completely different from when someone else says I want to make a book of your art. You don't decide the title, you don't decide the size, the order of the photographs . . . so it's completely out of control!

Usually the Indian people are outsiders who have to look up at the people who look down.