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.

To fly, we must have resistance.

I had very few friends. We always ate dinner with our parents. We didn't want to go out. American adolescence was a lot wilder than I would have felt comfortable with.

I like to think of my work as creating a private conversation with each person, no matter how public each work is and no matter how many people are present

A lot of my works deal with a passage, which is about time. I don't see anything that I do as a static object in space. It has to exist as a journey in time.

Our parents decided not to teach us Chinese. It was an era when they felt we would be better off if we didn't have that complication.

I deliberately did not read anything about the Vietnam War because I felt the politics of the war eclipsed what happened to the veterans. The politics were irrelevant to what this memorial was.