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

To fly we have to have resistance.

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.

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

Sometimes you have to stop thinking. Sometimes you shut down completely. I think that's true in any creative field.

The only thing that mattered was what you were to do in life, and it wasn't about money. It was about teaching, or learning.

I saw the Vietnam Veterans Memorial not as an object placed into the earth but as a cut in the earth that has then been polished, like a geode. Interest in the land and concern about how we are polluting the air and water of the planet are what make me want to travel back in geologic time-to witness the shaping of the earth before man.