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.

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 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.

Contemporary poets got so obscure that poetry kind of fell out of favor,

Understanding what is being said is only a fraction of the task of communicating. Taking in signals from the entire context is critical.

The assumption that the square of a unit vector is positive unity leads to an algebra whose characteristic quantities are non-associative.

The fundamentalists were equally stymied. “We were worried about Adam and Steve,” a Baptist minister said. “Should we have been more worried about Rover and Fluffy?

If I was a freak of nature... Hell yeah I wanna do freak shows! I don't wanna be applying for jobs at the mall.

Write in the kitchen, lock yourself up in the bathroom. Write on the bus or the welfare line, on the job or during meals.

She is written in a foreign tongue.

I don't try to be anything. I just want to play my game.

I like the authentic punk dance you did there. It's like a child dizzy off lemonade

Dead shepherd, now I find thy saw of might. Whoever lov'd that lov'd not at first sight.