I love New York, but I'd felt like an outsider here.

You can just never desist. You have to always push back, whatever the pressures put on you.

How do you design it so that people can form a space of their own, and feel quiet and contemplative?

I had a dual role: designer and advocate.

I'm a little more measured. That sense of urgency I thought accompanied things - it can take a little longer. You have to take the long view.

I think my desire to imagine a future for this site came out of trying to come to terms with the emotions that day aroused.

I really appreciate artists of the 20th century, and I can see a lot of their influence on my work, but to suggest that my design only fits within an 'ism' kind of bothers me.

I believe that people are fundamentally are decent. And, yes, you will have people that sometimes will misbehave.

For two years nobody talked about anything other than the name arrangement. There was no fund-raising and no progress being made on construction and design.

PERFORMING TRIBUTE 9/11 shows the heroism of people who have chosen to respond to devastation and hatred with quiet determination and a belief that they can and will make the world a better place.

New York was a place I wanted to live and work all along. If I wasn't going to live in Israel, I had to live in New York.

For you to be great, you must learn to convert every second of your life.

You can get in a car in Maine and drive all the way to California and hear the same Top 40 songs on the same chain broadcasters, ” bemoaned the report.

Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.

When Jesus died on the cross the veil in the temple was torn from top to bottom so that big sinners like me might fit through.

I read like fiends smoke crack

The whole 'R' rating depends on a strange sort of fantasy land where all adults are responsible people, and children only ever go to the cinema with their parents.

Redemption, transformation--God how she wanted these things. Every day, every minute. Didn't everyone?

I know what I can know, and am not troubled about what I cannot know.

People often ask me how I keep my priorities straight in life and I tell them that it is done by constantly straightening them out!

Any merchant who advertises 'Honest Scales' must have been thinking about weighing them.