Surrogate experience and surrogate environments have become the American way of life. Distinctions are no longer made, or deemed necessary, between the real and the false; the edge usually goes to the latter, as an improved version with defects corrected - accessible and user-friendly.

All autonomous agencies and authorities, sooner or later, turn into self-perpetuating strongholds of conventional thought and practice.

Postmodernism is a freewheeling, unfettered, and unapologetic pursuit of style.

Real serious waiting is done in waiting rooms, and what they all have in common is their purpose, or purposelessness, if you will; they are places for doing nothing and they have no life of their own. ... their one constant is what might be called a decorative rigor mortis.

No matter what an architect may be at home, he becomes a monumentalist when he comes to Washington.

Only a Californian would have observed that it is becoming increasingly difficult to tell the real fake from the fake fake.

Real estate is the closest thing to the proverbial pot of gold.