I'm talking about when you're nearer the end of your life than the beginning. Now what do you think you think about then? The future? In the future I'm going to do this? Become that? What future? No. What you think is, 'How will I be regarded in the end?'

Most of my life I have played a lot of famous people but most of them were dead so you have a poetic license.

In Stratford you either turn into an alcoholic or you better write.

I want to paint Montreal as a rather fantastic city, which it was, because nobody knows today what it was like. And I'm one of the last survivors, or rapidly becoming one.

I just can't tell you what fun I've had being a member of the world's second oldest profession.

Sometimes you have to look into a mirror and look at the worst you could have been if you're ever going to know the best you were meant to be.

A truly great structure, one that is meant to stand the tests of time, never disregards its environment. A serious architect takes that into account. He knows that if he wants presence, he must consult with nature.