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

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

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.

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

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.

In our current frame of mind, or paradigm, or whatever you want to call it, we like to think that marshalling government policy is the way to get things done.