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.

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

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.

We set no special value on the possession of a virtue until we percieve that it is entirely lacking in our adversary.

Mom lied. The crust is the shittiest part.

Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.

I am the best wrestler in the world.

Inspiration and work ethic - they ride right next to each other.

I still am very afraid to Google myself. There are some embarrassing roaming photos that I wish weren't on Google. But I intend to not Google myself.

For the state of our union to be strong, we need to place value in Americans.

Every one is worthy of love, except him who thinks that he is. Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling.

The company's most urgent task is to learn to welcome, beg for, demand - innovation from everyone.

If my hair gets any frizzier, I'll shave it to the scalp. Or light it on fire. Whichever is easier.