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.

When I was very little, we would get letters from China, in Chinese, and they' be censored. We were a very insular little family.

I left science, then I went into art, but I approach things very analytically. I choose to pursue both art and architecture as completely separate fields rather than merging them.

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

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

Every memorial in its time has a different goal.

It terrified me to have an idea that was solely mine to be no longer a part of my mind, but totally public.