American cities are not scaled to the energy diet of the future. They have become too large. They're over-scaled.

I like to call it 'the national automobile slum.' You can call it suburban sprawl. I think it's appropriate to call it the greatest misallocation of resources in the history of the world.

The twentieth century was about getting around. The twenty-first century will be about staying in a place worth staying in.

A land full of places that are not worth caring about may soon be a nation and a way of life that is not worth defending.

It pays to remember that societies get what they deserve, not what they expect.

The living arrangements American now think of as normal are bankrupting us economically, socially, ecologically and spiritually.

The immersive ugliness of our everyday environments in America is entropy made visible.

Americans threw away their communities in order to save a few dollars on hair dryers and plastic food storage tubs, never stopping to reflect on what they were destroying.

Suburbia is the insidious cartoon of the country house in a cartoon of the country.

Americans are suffering so much from being in unrewarding environments that it has made us very cynical. I think that American suburbia has become a powerful generator of anxiety and depression.

The salient fact about the decades ahead is that we are entering a permanent global energy crisis and it will change everything about how we live.

Stop the poverty! Where do they think they are going?!

Every man has his price.

. . . the messiness of experience, that may be what we mean by life.

No revolution succeeds without sacrifice.

The economy is in trouble, schools are in trouble, and people have been leaving the city in droves for a long, long time.

A statesman makes the occasion, but the occasion makes the politician.

As soon as you get over caring what people think, you can have a nice time.

Okay, we're going to land somewhere safely, don't worry.

Besides, I could hardly complain to the administration that I was being forced to learn magic.

I'm not Arsene Wenger. We're different. I want to win