Our parents decided not to teach us Chinese. It was an era when they felt we would be better off if we didn't have that complication.

Every memorial in its time has a different goal.

I'm not in a hurry to do a lot of projects. I am very resolved in each project I take on.

I'm as much interested in the form-making as well as getting you to think about what we're doing to the world around us.

Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture.

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 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.