We live in a time of renaissance ... cities are coming back to life, after a long neglect.

And you have to remember that I came to America as an immigrant. You know, on a ship, through the Statue of Liberty. And I saw that skyline, not just as a representation of steel and concrete and glass, but as really the substance of the American Dream.

Be innovative. Don't listen to the tried and tested wisdom. Take a risk!

To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history, but to articulate it.

When you're a kid with artistic yearnings brought up in the Bronx, you don't get fed up too easily.

Architecture is not based on concrete and steel, and the elements of the soil. It's based on wonder.

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