It's about how to bring together the seemingly contradictory aspects of the memorial, which is about a tragedy and how it changed the world, but also about creating a vital and beautiful city of the 21st century.

And of course I like Berlin a lot. It's such an interesting city

Young people have the advantage because they have their whole lives open to be astonished.

I believe that the idea of the totality, the finality of the master-plan, is misguided. One should advocate a gradual transformation of public space, a metamorphic process, without relying on a hypothetical time in the future when everything will be perfect. The mistake of planners and architects is to believe that fifty years from now Alexanderplatz will be perfected. -p.197

There are more people living in Lower Manhattan now than before the terrorist attacks. That's faith for you. There's such a strong spirit here.

Architecture is not just for the moment, it is not just for the next fashion magazine.

The Spiral Gallery may happen, too. It is not dependent on government funding.