Math, it's a puzzle to me. I love figuring out puzzles.

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

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 also wanted remembering the past relevant to the present. Some people wanted me to put the names in alphabetical order. I wanted them in chronological order so that a veteran could find his time within the panel. It's like a thread of life.

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.

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.

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.