The suburban cycle which began a hundred years ago is nearly over. We are in for a period of contraction and economic hardship.

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.

They say “time is money”. But I want to say “time makes money”. This means time is greater than money.

Too much of anything is not good. But I love her too much.

A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. I have not got one who is a fool.

Obedience to the law of chastity will increase our happiness in mortality and make possible our progress in eternity.

There is nothing to fear from gods, There is nothing to feel in death, Good can be attained, Evil can be endured.

You know what my theory is? Accept me or go to hell.

What is too often forgotten is that nature obviously intends the botched to die, and that every interference with that benign process is full of dangers.

I can't really say - if I've run out of ideas until I've had my next set of ideas.

I don't watch much television. Yeah, that's pretty funny. I don't know where The Daily Show stand politically, do you?

God is, to me, pretty much a myth created over time to deny the idea that we're all responsible for our own actions.