Without people pushing against your quest to do something worth talking about, it's unlikely to be worth the journey. Persist.
Call Berlin. Drop everything we're doing. I have a complete vision of what should be.
I'm not Candide, nor Dr Pangloss, but we know that faith moves mountains
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.
The Spiral Gallery may happen, too. It is not dependent on government funding
I don't get to sleep when I'm in New York. Really. I'm living on adrenaline
And then, build a bustling wonderful city of the 21st century, with a restoration of a spectacular skyline, which Manhattan, of course, needs. So, that is really the design as a whole
Brooklyn has a bit of everything - some of the most beautiful things in America, and some of the most wretched, ugly, impoverished things.
Crafts make us feel rooted, give us a sense of belonging and connect us with our history. Our ancestors used to create these crafts out of necessity, and now we do them for fun, to make money and to express ourselves.
A wolf is not bad for eating and tearing apart something, if it's for survival. It doesn't do it to be menacing.
But as the cerebellum degrades with age, so does the quality of memories. The memories are there, but they're not as good.