"With a painter or a sculptor, one cannot begin to alter his works, but an architect has to put up with anything, because he makes utility objects - the building is there to be used, and times change."

"Besides, I think that when one has been through a boarding school, especially then, you have some resistance, because it was both fine comradeship and a fairly hard training."

"There is always a point when one senses one's lack of skill, the doubt."

"Now, the downside to conservation is that so much is done for the public, which almost always mars the environment that one wanted to conserve."

"My college, Fitzwilliam, was pretty good but unfashionable and I lived in digs so I was not part of the cloistered 'old college' environment, which frankly was a bit intimidating. But I worked hard and settled in by exploring politics and girls."

"I love Canada. It's a wonderful political act of faith that exists atop a breathtakingly beautiful land."

"I had a husband who, I'm convinced, was an undiagnosed manic depressive. He didn't treat me as if I had a brain - I was just this beautiful little doll he could show off."

"Order is the shape upon which beauty depends."