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.

In the decades to come, the successful places will tend to be the smaller traditional towns and cities with viable farming hinterlands.

The two elements of the suburban pattern that cause the greatest problems are the extreme separation of uses and the vast distances between things

Painting allows me to use other portions of my brain pleasurably. Irony plays no part in what or how I paint. I paint the particular subject matter not to make polemical points but because I am interested in the human imprint on the landscape. I paint the landscape of my time and place with the stuff in it.

Building places that are worth living in and worth caring about require a certain attention to detail, and of a particular kind of detail that we have forgotten how to design and assemble. And that involves the relationship of the buildings to each other, the relationship of the buildings to the public space, which in America, comes mostly in the form of the street. Because it's only the exceptional places in America that have the village square or the New England green. You know. The street is mostly the public realm of America. And we have to design these things so that they reward us.

The twentieth century was about getting around. The twenty-first century will be about staying in a place worth staying in.

Forget [Le Corbusier ]. Forget Modernism. Forget yesterdays' tomorrow.