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 do not think you can find a reason for everything you make.

A lot of my works deal with a passage, which is about time. I don't see anything that I do as a static object in space. It has to exist as a journey in time.

If we can't face death, we'll never overcome it. You have to look it straight in the eye. Then you can turn around and walk back out into the light.

You really can't function as a celebrity. Entertainers are celebrities. I'm an architect. I'm an artist. I make things.

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

You have to have conviction and completely question everything and anything you do. No matter how much you study, no matter how much you know, the side of your brain that has the smarts won't necessarily help you in making art.