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

Don't look at the superficial success, at the short-term success. Look at the deep spiritual questions that architecture has to answer. Who do you build for? Where? What should you build?

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

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

And it is very moving because one has to see the site not as just another site of development but it is a very special site. It is a site that souls and hearts of all Americans.

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.

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