I think the artistic side of architecture was natural to me. My mother was an artist and a poet.

It is good to learn from the ancients. I'm a bit of an ancient myself. They had a lot of time to think about architecture and landscape.

I came, I studied architecture in America, so my technical background's completely western. But my seventeen years, the formative years of one's life, and I can't say that the Chineseness in me is not there.

A lasting architecture has to have roots.

Be the best, not necessarily the original.

Architecture must not do violence to space or its neighbors.