Unity, like so many good things, is good only in moderation.

Credentialing, not education, has become the primary business of North American universities.

All through organized history, if you wanted prosperity you had to have cities. Cities are places that attract new people with new ideas.

Maybe part of my animus against the English is the way they have always treated the Irish and they way they still think about the Irish.

Never underestimate the power of a city to regenerate.

The notion that you could discard the old world and now make a new one. This is what was so bad about Modernism.

...frequent streets and short blocks are valuable because of the fabric of intricate cross-use that they permit among the users of a city neighbouhood.