Government at all levels in the USA right now is engaged in a quixotic campaign to sustain the unsustainable. We're determined to run WalMart, Disney World, the Interstate Highways, suburbia, and an imperial military by other means than oil. We'll squander a lot of dwindling resources in the process.

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

The cities of the future will be much smaller than they are today.

It pays to remember that societies get what they deserve, not what they expect.

The skyscraper - any building over seven stories really - will come to be seen as an experimental building type that doesn't work well in an energy-starved economy.

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.

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