The industrial age is over. What follows will be life lived on a much smaller and finer scale.

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.

Opportunity always knocks

Death is the greatest goal of anyone. It is something no other living human can achieve

You can make your superhero a psychopath, you can draw gut-splattering violence, and you can call it a "graphic novel, " but comic books are still incredibly stupid.

None are so seldom found alone, and are so soon tired of their own company, as those coxcombs who are on the best terms with themselves.

When my mother left her second husband, she wrote her autobiography and presented it to him for his approval.

Train smart at all times and do your best to avoid injury. Training smart is more important than training hard.

To believe in a universe as young as 6 or 7,000 years old is to extinguish the light from most of the galaxy.

I’m not a liberal elite who was educated in the northeast, for example, I’m just a kid from Mississippi.

Someone has a great fire in his soul and nobody ever comes to warm themselves at it, and passers-by see nothing but a little smoke at the top of the chimney and then go on their way.

She's been on more laps than a napkin.