I think to be creative you have to resist taking the easy path.

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

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

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

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.

Life it is not just a series of calculations and a sum total of statistics, it's about experience, it's about participation, it is something more complex and more interesting than what is obvious

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.