Under the current high energy / high entropy regime, sustainable development is a joke.

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.

A generous heart filled with gratitude is a magnet for abundance.

In order to have success, you have to concentrate on your goals.

Why do I write? Because I like telling stories and I don't like repeating myself (insert chuckle here).

New York is large, glamorous, easy-going, kindly and incurious, but above all it is a crucible - because it is large enough to be incurious.

Part of elegy is confrontation - not just with the idea of death, but with the person who has died.

There is something irreversible about acquiring knowledge; and the simulation of the search for it differs in a most profound way from the reality.

If I must be a slave to habit let me be a slave to good habits.

The strength and vitality of an empire is frequently due to the new aristocracy from the periphery.

We do not credit to the ideal of religious freedom when we talk as though religious belief is something of which public-spirited adults should be ashamed.