When I Was Building The Vietnam Memorial,

In Art Or Architecture Your Project Is Only Done When You Say It's Done. If You Want To Rip It Apart At The Eleventh Hour And Start All Over Again, You Never Finish. I Was One Of Those Crazy Creatures.

To Fly, We Have To Have Resistance. It's All About Turbulence. Reacting To Images Of Wave Patterns In Fluid Motion.

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 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.

Some Artists Want To Confront. Some Want To Invoke Thought. They're All Necessary And They're All Valid.