I had very few friends. We always ate dinner with our parents. We didn't want to go out. American adolescence was a lot wilder than I would have felt comfortable with.

If we forget what used to be, then we’ve lost an ability to really be sensitive to our surroundings.

To me, the American Dream is being able to follow your own personal calling. To be able to do what you want to do is incredible freedom.

I had very few friends. We always ate dinner with our parents. We didn't want to go out. American adolescence was a lot wilder than I would have felt comfortable with.

Some artists want to confront. Some want to invoke thought. They're all necessary and they're all valid.

I saw the Vietnam Veterans Memorial not as an object placed into the earth but as a cut in the earth that has then been polished, like a geode.

For the most part things never get built the way they were drawn.