Most of suburbia will end up in three ways: ruins, slums, salvage yards for materials.

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.

Life is a dilemma between living a lie and speaking one.

We’ve all got weaknesses. Me, for instance. I’m tragically funny and good-looking.

The triumph of persuasion over force is the sign of a civilized society.

I stand, and wait among the sea foam. I swim in my own tears-I sing without my voice. I do not reach for higher ground, because I have lapped in the churning waters.

Remember, your goal is to trade well, not to trade often.

A measuring jug is also vital when cooking rice, as this is always measured by volume rather than by weight

A printer publishes a lie: for which he ought to stand in the pillory, for the people believe in and act upon it

One hand washeth another, and both the face.

Until we see something that is actually wrongdoing, we're probably not going to go on a fishing trip to go see look at.

Nothing happens until I make it happen.