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.

American cities are not scaled to the energy diet of the future. They have become too large. They're over-scaled.

I think Americans are very patriotic.

I'm convinced that the Great Lakes region will be at the center of an internally-focused North American economy when the hallucination of oil-powered globalism dissolves. Places like Buffalo, Cleveland, and Detroit will have a new life, but not at the scale of the twentieth century.

I don't think there is much American music.

I think that much of the truth has been withheld from the American people.