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

I always give the analogy of the Earth at Night picture, of 7.3 billion of us, right? And everyone says, "Well, that's population." Well, if you took the entire world's population and you lived at the density of Manhattan proper - not a bad place to live - how much space do 7.3 billion people take up? The state of Colorado. At which point I end my lectures, because I want you to be thinking ... is this really a question of population, or is this a question of land use and resource consumption? And let's face it, the top 1.3 billion of us are doing all the damage. Sorry.

Sometimes I think creativity is magic; it's not a matter of finding an idea, but allowing the idea to find you.

You should be having more fun in high school, exploring things because you want to explore them and learning because you love learning-not worrying about competition.

I think I needed to really move past my first public work as memorialist, and be equally balanced. It's a bit unusual, to be working between the architecture, the art, and what I would say is a synthesis, the memorials - they're problem solving, but it's very symbolic. You get this triangle; I need to be balanced with those three. They're all equally a part of who I am. I love how different they are, and yet they're coming out the same thing, whatever it is.

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

To fly, we have to have resistance. It's all about turbulence. Reacting to images of wave patterns in fluid motion.