Cities like Detroit exist because they occupy important sites. In the case of Detroit, it sits on a river between two great lakes - very important and strategic.

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.

(Can you understand your own dreams, which arise with mushrooms' rank richness in the night-forests within your skull?)

Before hurting anyone, especially those who cannot protect themselves, feel their pain with your heart. Take care of them as your little child.

She posed as being more indolent than she felt, for fear of finding herself less able than she could wish.

The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.

My parents signed me up for classical guitar lessons, which made for two years of the most depressing Wednesday evenings.

Humility is honestly assessing ourselves in light of God’s holiness and our sinfulness.

It's quite possible that Beckham suffers from a mental block at big tournaments

Being an artist is not easy - I have always said that to the students I have taught over the years. It's a huge sacrifice.

Every artist paints his Madonna according to his own pre-conceived ideas.

So then I though I'd make some plans, but Fire thought she'd really rather be Water instead.