If We Forget What Used To Be,

Even Though I Build Buildings And I Pursue My Architecture, I Pursue It As An Artist. I Deliberately Keep A Tiny Studio. I Don't Want To Be An Architectural Firm. I Want To Remain An Artist.

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.

Our Lives Are Given Meaning By Our Actions-accomplishments Made While We Are "here" That Extend Beyond Our Own Time.

When I Was Very Little, We Would Get Letters From China, In Chinese, And They' Be Censored. We Were A Very Insular Little Family.

My Grandfather, On My Father's Side, Helped To Draft One Of The First Constitutions Of China. He Was A Fairly Well-known Scholar.