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.

I do think the smaller-scale studio works have that incredible love of data crunching, whereas I would say the large-scale earthworks tend to be much more stripped-down. With the mappings, as connected as they are to a much more analytical idea, what's a map? And can I make a map about time? I think the first time was Hurricane Sandy, the flood plane; a moment in time, but indelibly marked on any of us who were in the city. Mapping time is something that I'm really interested in.

I loved school. I studied like crazy. I was a Class A nerd.

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.

You really can't function as a celebrity. Entertainers are celebrities. I'm an architect. I'm an artist. I make things.

It's only in hindsight that you realize what indeed your childhood was really like.

The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost.