Sometimes you have to stop thinking. Sometimes you shut down completely. I think that's true in any creative field.

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

You couldn't put me in a social group setting. I'm probably a terrible anarchist deep down.

Math, it's a puzzle to me. I love figuring out puzzles.

Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture.

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

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. Interest in the land and concern about how we are polluting the air and water of the planet are what make me want to travel back in geologic time-to witness the shaping of the earth before man.