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

I hope for the experience of people standing together, turning their backs to the city and facing this, and hearing the leaves rustle. Well, maybe it won't be as bucolic as at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, but I know you will feel removed from the city.

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 have no choice but to fight them every step of the way. I can't tell you how many other stupid ideas have been proposed over the last two years.

When I was in the Army, the unit I served in, you could never stop. It was a volunteer unit, and there was a fairly high rate of attrition. The people who stayed through are the people who were either great at it or the people who just didn't know how to stop. And I fell into that second category.

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.