I don't like talking about 'solutions.' I prefer talking about intelligent responses.

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.

There is always a double meaning in life...

There was a young lady of NigerWho smiled as she rode on a tiger

I was not so old that I would deny my own senses.

Fashion is a strange world sometimes. Amazing, but strange.

My heart is in television, just because it's been so good to me.

Far more critical than what we know or what we don't know is what we don't want to know.

The main downside was that it [fame] happened so quickly and I didn't have time to establish what kind of person I wanted to be.

The Republican Party is a much bigger tent than people give it credit for. We have a lot of what I guess you all call moderate Republicans.

Nothing has ever been said about God that hasn't already been said better by the wind in the pine trees.