I was probably the first kid in my high school to go to Yale. I applied almost as a lark. Then, when I got there, I was the dumbest person in your class.

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

To fly, we must have resistance.

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

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 really enjoyed hanging out with some of the teachers. This one chemistry teacher, she liked hanging out. I liked making explosives. We would stay after school and blow things up.

It was a requirement by the veterans to list the 57,000 names. We're reaching a time that we'll acknowledge the individual in a war on a national level.