The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost.

If we can't face death, we'll never overcome it. You have to look it straight in the eye. Then you can turn around and walk back out into the light.

Even though I build buildings and I pursue my architecture, I pursue it as an artist. I deliberately keep a tiny studio. I don't want to be an architectural firm. I want to remain an artist.

It terrified me to have an idea that was solely mine to be no longer a part of my mind, but totally public.

I left science, then I went into art, but I approach things very analytically. I choose to pursue both art and architecture as completely separate fields rather than merging them.

When I was building the Vietnam Memorial, I never once asked the veterans what it was like in the war, because from my point of view, you don't pry into other people's business.

How we are using up our home, how we are living and polluting the planet is frightening. It was evident when I was a child. It's more evident now.