Empires want [cities] only to trade with the empire, which doesn't help them at all. It's just a way of exploiting them.

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 were lots of programs over the course of the two referendums and the general tenor of them was that if Quebec were to separate, then Canada would disintegrate.

Americans don't really think that other places are as real as America.

Cities need old buildings so badly it is probably impossible for vigorous streets and districts to grow without them.... for really new ideas of any kind--no matter how ultimately profitable or otherwise successful some of them might prove to be--there is no leeway for such chancy trial, error and experimentation in the high-overhead economy of new construction. Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings.

You don't get new products and services out of sameness.

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