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.

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

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

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.

Only through acknowledgment of the erasure and void of Jewish life can the history of Berlin and Europe have a human future.

Cities are the greatest creations of humanity.