I probably spent the first 20 years of my life wanting to be as American as possible. Through my 20s, and into my 30s, I began to become aware of how so much of my art and architecture has a decidedly Eastern character.

You should be having more fun in high school, exploring things because you want to explore them and learning because you love learning-not worrying about competition.

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

We were unusually brought up; there was no gender differentiation. I was never thought of as any less than my brother.

I loved school. I studied like crazy. I was a Class A nerd.

My grandfather, on my father's side, helped to draft one of the first constitutions of China. He was a fairly well-known scholar.

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