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

Call Berlin. Drop everything we're doing. I have a complete vision of what should be.

And then, build a bustling wonderful city of the 21st century, with a restoration of a spectacular skyline, which Manhattan, of course, needs. So, that is really the design as a whole.

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

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

You cannot suddenly make Lower Manhattan into a sad place because we saw such a dramatic loss of life. You have to balance the memory, which is so important, and use it as a kind of Archimedean Point to create a lively, incredibly interesting, and culturally significant piece of a city and neighborhood.

Life it is not just a series of calculations and a sum total of statistics, it's about experience, it's about participation, it is something more complex and more interesting than what is obvious