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

Architecture is like a mythical fantastic. It has to be experienced. It can't be described. We can draw it up and we can make models of it, but it can only be experienced as a complete whole.

war is not just a victory or loss ... People die.

My dad was dean of fine arts at the university. I was casting bronzes in the school foundry. I was using the university as a playground.

I probably spent the first 20 years of my life wanting to be as American as possible. Through my 20s, and into my 30s, I began to become aware of how so much of my art and architecture has a decidedly Eastern character.

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

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.