We don't need gold plated highways. We don't need zoning commissions which penalize offices at home and promote car commutes.

America does not want change, except from the cash register at Wal-Mart.

I don't like talking about 'solutions.' I prefer talking about intelligent responses.

Most of suburbia will end up in three ways: ruins, slums, salvage yards for materials.

Two decades from now, I doubt that the home building industry, so called, will even exist as we have known it.

I abhor the word "consumer." Consumers, unlike citizens, have no implicit duties, obligations, or responsibilities to the common good. It's a degrading term. The use of it degrades the public discussion.

I am far less interested in serving as a change agent than in functioning as a prose artist, whether it's fiction or nonfiction.