Once energy problems gain traction, there will be a large new class of economic losers, and consequently a lot of social turbulence.

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.

Clarity enables Empowerment

People usually gossip about people they don't quite understand, are jealous of, or have other negative feelings for.

Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action a superior mind exists in torture.

Pretend and it will be true.

And I loved this moment for all it's pain...We seemed for a moment like two parts of the same thing.

When you're offstage, that's the footprint. That's the man God's gonna judge.

I'm just saying, it's got to be about something more than just body parts when you're with somebody.

MacPherson told me that my theorem can be viewed as blah blah blah Grothendieck blah blah blah, which makes it much more respectable.

Conservation is now a dead word.

There is some secret stirring in the world, / A thought that seeks impatiently its word.