Forget [Le Corbusier ]. Forget Modernism. Forget yesterdays' tomorrow.

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.

Liberation movements - prizing ends over means - are not always particular about their friends or scrupulous about their transactions.

Russia hasn't paid any attention to ISIS. They're interested in keeping Assad in power.

To know the machine one must know where each part belongs, and what its office is.

We have shared out, like thieves, the amazing treasures of days and nights.

I'm somebody who gets a lot of inspiration from dreams.

Our thoughts are free.

Science is not a thing. It's a verb. It's a way of thinking about things. It's a way of looking for natural explanations for all phenomena.

Runnin' this game for five years, guess that's why my feet hurt.

Throwing people out of a game is like learning to ride a bicycle--once you get the hang of it, it can be a lot of fun.

You can't make an egg without frying an egg