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

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

Growing up, I thought I was white. It didn't occur to me I was Asian-American until I was studying abroad in Denmark and there was a little bit of prejudice.

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.

Architecture is like a mythical fantastic. It has to be experienced. It can't be described. We can draw it up and we can make models of it, but it can only be experienced as a complete whole.

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.

In art or architecture your project is only done when you say it's done. If you want to rip it apart at the eleventh hour and start all over again, you never finish. I was one of those crazy creatures.