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 probably have fundamentally antisocial tendencies. I never took one extracurricular activity. I just failed utterly at that level. Part of me still rebels against that.

I deliberately did not read anything about the Vietnam War because I felt the politics of the war eclipsed what happened to the veterans. The politics were irrelevant to what this memorial was.

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

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.

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

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