It pays to remember that 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.

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.

At the heart of our misunderstanding and infantile behavior is the wish for a miracle cure.

There is a fine line between any contradictory matters. When our souls fail to spot it before our minds, we lose track of both reality and vision in which lead to a one way ticket for an unknown path

I have a system with bathrooms. I spend a lot of time in them. They are sanctuaries, public places of peace spaced throughout the world for people like me.

To leave a man's ego bigger, retweet him. To leave his faculty of reasoning better, challenge his tweet.

By unspoken agreement, we all picked an invisible line in the cracked asphalt and toed it.

Although some people think that life is a battle, it is actually a game of giving and receiving.

Look at Hispanic women - they are being paid 42 cents on the dollar - or African-American women. I think it's an issue we have to look at across the board.

God is speaking to all of us, all the time. The question is not, to whom does God talk? The question is, who listens?

Come on," I said. "I've got some questions for Thoth. And then I'm going to punch him in the beak.

What always was must always be.