The Spiral Gallery may happen, too. It is not dependent on government funding.

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

I am opposed to abortion and to government funding of abortions.

I studied architecture in New York. So, really I was very moved, like everyone else, to try to contribute something that has that resonance and profundity of it means to all of us.

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.

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