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.

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

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

To fly, we must have resistance.

The only thing that mattered was what you were to do in life, and it wasn't about money. It was about teaching, or learning.

I cannot force a design; I do not see this process as being under my conscious control.

Our lives are given meaning by our actions-accomplishments made while we are "here" that extend beyond our own time.