We were unusually brought up; there was no gender differentiation. I was never thought of as any less than my brother.

When I was very little, we would get letters from China, in Chinese, and they' be censored. We were a very insular little family.

It's only in hindsight that you realize what indeed your childhood was really like.

If we forget what used to be, then we’ve lost an ability to really be sensitive to our surroundings.

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

I saw the Vietnam Veterans Memorial not as an object placed into the earth but as a cut in the earth that has then been polished, like a geode.

The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical.