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?

We live in a time of renaissance ... cities are coming back to life, after a long neglect.

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.

Architecture is not just for the moment, it is not just for the next fashion magazine.

And, yes, I love the process of building.

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

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