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.

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

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

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

Be innovative. Don't listen to the tried and tested wisdom. Take a risk!

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

I think there is a new awareness in this 21st century that design is as important to where and how we live as it is for museums, concert halls and civic buildings.

Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built.

What is a habit? It’s just a shackle for ourselves.

Cities are the greatest creations of humanity.

And, yes, I love the process of building.

When you mix with the wrong energy, there's bound to be an explosion. Pay attention and switch lanes when the signal changes. What's really real, is ultimately revealed.

It's a blessing to have work that feels fulfilling.

People souls - perennial loners. They're loners like stray stars.

A mathematician is a magician who converts adjectives into nouns: continuous into continuum, infinite into infinity, infinitesimal into location, 0D into point, 1D into line, curved into geodesic.

Bonobos may have a brain that's a third the size of ours, but they're remarkably intelligent.

People who meditate seek good moments forever. They know that there are other worlds beyond this world. They feel it. I experience those worlds when I meditate.

Often, our most rewarding dreams are staring us right in the face, but for some reason we focus on how hard things are, how we are scared of the unknown and what would happen if we failed.

My thinking is very flexible, and I hope that it will remain flexible and creative as long as biology permits me to think and that I will remain a rebel all my life.

I was a biography in constant motion, memory to the marrow of my bones.

We don't necessarily always agree, but hopefully we make each other think, and that's what matters.