I think I've always had an activist stance, yet at the same time, the other side of me - and this is where some people just don't get it, or they'd prefer it if the work was a lot uglier, a lot louder - I have this personality where I just want to put something out that's a fact and then let you interpret it. It's almost as if you might barely notice it, you might walk right by it, but you have to pay attention.

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 was probably the first kid in my high school to go to Yale. I applied almost as a lark. Then, when I got there, I was the dumbest person in your class.

Math, it's a puzzle to me. I love figuring out puzzles.

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

The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost.

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.