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

In my view, suburbia in general has very poor prospects. I think it will only become devalued and probably more dangerous. It's chief characteristic was that it represented a living arrangement with no future - and that future is now here.

Ridicule is the unfortunate destiny of the ridiculous.

The salient fact about the decades ahead is that we are entering a permanent global energy crisis and it will change everything about how we live.

I am a sur le motif painter, always in-the-field, with a French easel that folds up into a box, with backpack straps on it. Many of the sites I haunt are desolately beautiful. Few other people go there. I am gloriously alone, unmolested, and absorbed in attempting to see what I am looking at.

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

Americans are suffering so much from being in unrewarding environments that it has made us very cynical. I think that American suburbia has become a powerful generator of anxiety and depression.