Societies get what they deserve, not what they expect.

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.

I think a lot of things will be self-correcting, even in America. After all, human societies are essentially self-organizing emergent systems. The catch is, how much disorder will we have to endure while this re-self-organizing process occurs.

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.

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

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

Our building practices for the past century have been plain stupid - especially the glorification of the single-family house in a subdivision, at the expense of all other typologies and arrangements.