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

Sometimes I think creativity is magic; it's not a matter of finding an idea, but allowing the idea to find you.

To fly, we must have resistance.

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

Some of your teachers are actually closer in age to you than you think.

My grandfather, on my father's side, helped to draft one of the first constitutions of China. He was a fairly well-known scholar.

I think I needed to really move past my first public work as memorialist, and be equally balanced. It's a bit unusual, to be working between the architecture, the art, and what I would say is a synthesis, the memorials - they're problem solving, but it's very symbolic. You get this triangle; I need to be balanced with those three. They're all equally a part of who I am. I love how different they are, and yet they're coming out the same thing, whatever it is.