We often judge cities by great public buildings. But we admire great cities because people live there in a beautiful way. You have to think about how each person will live there; you can't just think about abstract ideas.

I'm not Candide, nor Dr Pangloss, but we know that faith moves mountains.

There will be a competition for the memorial. And then it can be developed with trees, with planting. It can become a very beautiful place protected from the streets, because it is below. And it can be something very moving and very private.

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

I don't get to sleep when I'm in New York. Really. I'm living on adrenaline.

What is a habit? It’s just a shackle for ourselves.

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