I won't deny the polemical elements in my work, but they are less in the service of attempting … - James Howard Kunstler

Same topic Authors

Quote of the day

Writing makes no noise, except groans, and it can be done everywhere, and it is done alone.

James Howard Kunstler

I won't deny the polemical elements in my work, but they are less in the service of attempting to reform human behavior than the delighted exercise of my rather malicious sense of humor - especially vis-a-vis the horrifying everyday environment we have produced for ourselves. These mall-scapes, burb-scapes, urban wildernesses, starchitect stunts, and other toxic contexts for our daily lives express about every human vice, stupidity, and blunder that it is possible for a society to make. It all leads, really, to a psychological place where only comedy or despair make sense.

Despair, Elements, Everyday, Exercise, Stupidity, Urban

Same Author Quotes

America does not want change, except from the cash register at Wal-Mart.

America, Cash, Change, Doe, Register

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.

Caring, Full, Land, May, Nation

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

Car, Commutes, Home, Office, Promote, Zoning

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

Corbusier, Forget, Modernism, Tomorrow, Yesterday, Yesterdays

If it happens that the human race doesn't make it, then the fact that we were here once will not be altered, that once upon a time we peopled this astonishing blue planet, and wondered intelligently at everything about it and the other things who lived here with us on it, and that we celebrated the beauty of it in music and art, architecture, literature, and dance, and that there were times when we approached something godlike in our abilities and aspirations. We emerged out of depthless mystery, and back into mystery we returned,and in the end the mystery is all there is.

Art, Blue, Lived, Music, Race, Wondered