The extent and condition of our property, and our choice of style in dwelling, create a powerful emblem of our identity and status.

Individualism and mobility are at the core of American identity

We are so habitually nostalgic by now that we anticipate looking back in the midst of enjoyment, look forward to watching the videos we're taking of our children even as we make them.

In choosing where to live or vacation, we may be setting the stage for the play of ourselves, treating nature as prop.

I read the landscape to help me through, to know what's come before me there, to find my footing in time.

How do we accurately evoke land we love? What should we even call the world we walk and drive through-scenery, landscape?

Home is where we know - and are known - through accumulated experience.

As more women lean in to their careers, more men need to lean in to their families. We need to encourage men to be more ambitious in their homes.

We're all guilty of saying insincere things at one point or another, if only just to make the moment not totally suck as much as it truly does.

If you look at all the notions we accept about who we are, you find that they are all based upon our perceptual experiences.

We cannot rest while Brazilians are going hungry, while families are living in the streets, while poor children are abandoned to their own fates and while crack and crack dens rule.

Resisted temptations become lost opportunities.

One should be allowed to choose one's burden.

I've played killers, crazies, and really bad people.

I know from my experience it is up to the working people to save themselves. The only way they can save themselves is by a strong working-class movement.

One of my favorite activities as a teen-ager was to watch television over the phone with my best friend.

There are no mistakes and it's never boring on the edge of imagination, which is only pure spirit having a bit of fun.