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

The twentieth century was about getting around. The twenty-first century will be about staying in a place worth staying in.

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.

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

I believe most of suburbia is unreformable and will not be fixed.

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 have a new theory of history, which is certain things happen because they seem like a good idea at the time. And suburbia seemed like a good idea at the time, but it was a special time and place in history, with special dynamics. And now, we're going to have to live with the consequences of that. And the consequences will be tragic.