We were unusually brought up; there was no gender differentiation. I was never thought of as any less than my brother. 
Nothing is ever guaranteed, and all that came before doesn't predicate what you might do next. 
Sometimes I think creativity is magic; it's not a matter of finding an idea, but allowing the idea to find you. 
To fly, we must have resistance. 
If we forget what used to be, then we've lost an ability to really be sensitive to our surroundings. 
My parents are both college professors, and it made me want to question authority, standards and traditions. 
You have to let the viewers come away with their own conclusions. If you dictate what they should think, you've lost it. 
How we are using up our home, how we are living and polluting the planet is frightening. It was evident when I was a child. It's more evident now. 
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. 
When I was very little, we would get letters from China, in Chinese, and they' be censored. We were a very insular little family. 
Some of your teachers are actually closer in age to you than you think. 
It's only in hindsight that you realize what indeed your childhood was really like. 
Warmth isn't what minimalists are thought to have. 
Sometimes you have to stop thinking. Sometimes you shut down completely. I think that's true in any creative field. 
I loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination. 
I went through withdrawal when I got out of graduate school. It's what you learn, what you think. That's all that counts. 
I do not think you can find a reason for everything you make. 
It's funny, as you live through something you're not aware of it. 
Our parents decided not to teach us Chinese. It was an era when they felt we would be better off if we didn't have that complication. 
The role of art in society differs for every artist. 
The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical. 
All my work is much more peaceful than I am. 
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. 
I'm not in a hurry to do a lot of projects. I am very resolved in each project I take on. 
To me, the American Dream is being able to follow your own personal calling. To be able to do what you want to do is incredible freedom. 
I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me. 
You couldn't put me in a social group setting. I'm probably a terrible anarchist deep down. 