The suburban cycle which began a hundred years ago is nearly over. We are in for a period of contraction and economic hardship.

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

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.

The American house has been TV-centered for three generations. It is the focus of family life, and the life of the house correspondingly turns inward, away from whatever corresponds beyond its four walls.At the same time, the television is the families chief connection to the world. The physical envelope of the house itself no longer connects their lives to the outside in any active way; rather it seals them from it.The outside world has become an abstraction filtered through television, just as the weather is an abstraction filtered through air conditioning.

My skills are not of the highest caliber, but I know a thing or two, and I occasionally produce a painting that contains passages of truth and beauty.

I think we'll see a leveling off and then a contraction of population, not a continued upward trend.

When a society is stressed, when it comes up against things that are hard to understand, you get a lot of delusional thinking.