People who think of themselves as exiles, I find, can never really put their lives together, really.

Reactions [on my 1979 Massey lectures] were from Anglophones. I'm one. But I'm terrible at French. In fact, there was practically no reaction.

New ideas must use old buildings

[If Quebec became sovereign] there would be one level of government that would be missing, one less level of government. The municipality would become the second level.

Erosion of cities or attrition of automobiles?

New ideas often need old buildings.

That was the fear that there would be no identity anymore, for Canada. It was foolish, because there are so many examples of separatism, and nothing has disintegrated, unless they went to war.