It terrified me to have an idea that was solely mine to be no longer a part of my mind, but totally public.
Source: On her design for Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington DC, in Nation,al Geographic May 1985.
-- Maya Ying Lin, (Oct 5 1959-____), US architect, sculptor; She designed the Vietnam War Memorial, dedicated 1982; also designed the memorial to those who have died in the civil rights movement, 1988.