Buffer between commercial, memorial and retail space.

Larry wanted us to reposition the tower. We wouldn't, and won't. He's been holding back our fees. We want to get paid. And that's it. It'll get solved and we'll carry on with planning Ground Zero.

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

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

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.

Buffer between commercial, memorial and retail space.

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