Motion is a great tranquilizer.

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.

Profitability is the sovereign criterion of the enterprise.

There is no budget for travel for a Shadow Foreign Secretary.

And so I think I got married because I thought that a ring would lock that love in forever, because it's very scary when it is just your feelings holding you together

The most promising words ever written on the maps of human knowledge are terra incognita, unknown territory.

My own style influences have to do with where I grew up, in the Bronx, and I still like to wear bangles and big hoops!

It’s what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change the future.

What you're thinking, what you're saying, what you're doing, is having an impact on you and the people around you

A writer must know how people read, what are the main sources of reading errors, and what can be done to possibly forestall them.

I was devastated by the loss of my job in March, although I can understand why it occurred.

One might say I have decided to marry the silence of the forest. The sweet dark warmth of the whole world will have to be my wife.