It Was A Requirement By The Veterans

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.

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.

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 Loved School. I Studied Like Crazy. I Was A Class A Nerd.

Art Is Very Tricky Because It's What You Do For Yourself. It's Much Harder For Me To Make Those Works Than The Monuments Or The Architecture.