“For the most part things never get built the way they were drawn.”

“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 really enjoyed hanging out with some of the teachers. This one chemistry teacher, she liked hanging out. I liked making explosives. We would stay after school and blow things up.”

“I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.”

“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 creatu...”

“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 decide...”

“War is what happens when language fails.”

“Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.”

“The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.”

“There's been nobody who stays in more communication and listens to veterans more than I do.”

“One of the key issues all veterans face is making the transition to a civilian career, and for veterans who need extra medical attention, this can be even more difficult.”

“While many employers do the right thing and provide flexible schedules for disabled veterans, I felt that it was important to provide all disabled veterans with a solution that would help them have...”

“Senator Albert Gore Sr. was one of the first outspoken critics of the Vietnam War.”