We can love completely what we cannot completely understand.
It terrified me to have an idea that was solely mine to be no longer a part of my mind, but totally public.
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.
It's only in hindsight that you realize what indeed your childhood was really like.
The role of art in society differs for every artist.
I begin by imagining an artwork verbally. I try to describe in writing what the project is, what it is trying to do. I need to understand the artwork without giving it a specific materiality or solid form.
When I was very little, we would get letters from China, in Chinese, and they' be censored. We were a very insular little family.
Weakness indicates dependence, and there is a degree of trust and tenderness also in it.
Few friendships could survive the moodiness of love affairs.
While people are prepared to talk about Social Security, about marriage equality, about any number of other issues, people are not prepared - your layperson is not prepared to have a conversation about foreign policy.
I'm sorry for my inability to let unimportant things go, for my inability to hold on to the important things.