Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings.

Lots of things are not possible for municipalities, suburbs, or collections of them now. They are not possible and they would become possible, because they would have more authority. They would have the same authority as a province now.

Why did I become a Canadian citizen? Not because I was rejecting being a U.S. citizen. At the time when I became a Canadian citizen, you couldn't be a dual citizen. Now you can. So I had to be one or the other. But the reason I became a Canadian citizen was because it simply seemed so abnormal to me not to be able to vote.

Some men tend to cling to old intellectual excitements, just as some belles, when they are old ladies, still cling to the fashions and coiffures of their exciting youth.

I think it is fatal to specialize. And all kinds of things show us that and that the more diverse we are in what we can do, the better.

There is no new world that you make without the old world.

Cities never flourish alone. They have to be trading with other cities.