[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.

The ballet of the good city sidewalk never repeats itself from place to place, and in any one place is always replete with new improvisations.

There are still an awful lot of intelligent, clever constructive Americans and they are still doing clever constructive things.

Nations are political and military entities, and so are blocs of nations. But it doesn't necessarily follow from this that they are also the basic, salient entities of economic life or that they are particularly useful for probing the mysteries of economic structure, the reasons for rise and decline of wealth. Indeed, the failure of national governments and blocs of nations to force economic life to do their bidding suggests some sort of essential irrelevance.

Virtually all ideologues, of any variety, are fearful and insecure, which is why they are drawn to ideologies that promise prefabricated answers for all circumstances.

People must take a modicum of public responsibility for each other even if they have no ties to each other.

I have been dwelling upon downtowns. This is not because mixtures of primary uses are unneeded elsewhere in cities. On the contrary they are needed, and the success of mixtures downtown (on in the most intensive portions of cities, whatever they are called) is related to the mixture possible in other part of cities.