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

The official name of the project is 'Jewish Museum' but I have named it 'Between the Lines' because for me it is about two lines of thinking, organization and relationship. One is a straight line, but broken into many fragments, the other is a tortuous line, but continuing indefinitely.

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.

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

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

Well, I think one doesn't really have to invent this memorial space, because it is already there. And it is speaking with a voice and, you know, 4 million of us came to see the site.

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