Societies get what they deserve, not what they expect.

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 nothing more majestic than the determined courage of individuals willing to suffer and sacrifice for their freedom and dignity.

Some like to understand what they believe in. Others like to believe in what they understand.

Retire? Retire from What? Life? I will only retire when I am dead!

We all have levels of performance.

Poetry is the art of saying what you mean but disguising it.

One marvel of a day he had walked so far that when he returned the moon was high and full and all the world was purple shadow and silver.

I hate when dealers talk to me. I love dealers - they're some of our favorite people in the art world. But I hate if they do a sales pitch on me. I can't stand it.

I'm not at all fed up with British films, but I am fed up with playing upper-class people.

God is with me. Jesus is near. The Spirit is greater than my fear.

Just erotic. Nothing kinky. It's the difference between using a feather and using a chicken.