In 1955, before the national highway system was developed, the median home was 1,000 square feet and had 3.6 people living in it.

Now, the median home is 2,400 square feet and shelters 2.3 people.

"Seclusion is a fact of life."

Louis Menand:

The interstates changed the phenomenology of driving.

Verlyn Klinkenborg:

Someone from the future, I’m sure, will marvel at our blindness and at the hole we have driven ourselves into.