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.

While you are looking, you might as well also listen, linger and think about what you see.

Streets and their sidewalks-the main public places of a city-are its most vital organs.

New ideas must use old buildings

To seek "causes" of poverty in this way is to enter an intellectual dead end because poverty has no causes. Only prosperity has causes.

The trouble with paternalists is that they want to make impossibly profound changes, and they choose impossibly superficial means for doing so.

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.