We will have to make new arrangements, or revive bygone ones. We may, for another example, see the return of the boarding house.

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.

You can handle just about anything that comes at you out on the road with a believable grin, common sense and whiskey.

It is not a surprise that a person would want to be a prophet. What's ridiculous is that other people let him.

you live each day one at a timeyou live every day all at onceyou live with the possibility of good-byeyou move on.

I owe it all to art books, chocolate and young men.

The best advice about getting older? Just be thankful you're not dead!

Eating healthy is a constant battle. I love chips. I'm a huge pasta fan.

I love to cook; I cook every day. Chicken features a lot in our lives.

it is inconceivable that poverty eradication can make much headway in the absence of major advances in literacy.

Christianity has in fact long vanished, not only from the reason but also from the life of mankind, and it is nothing more than a fixed idea.

Such ever was love's way: to rise, it stoops.