Playboy interview (1996)
Context: Here a human without a car is a samurai without his sword. I would replace cars wherever possible with buses, monorails, rapid trains — whatever is takes to make pedestrians the center of our society again, and cities worthwhile enough for pedestrians to live in. I don't care what people do with their cars, as long as they give them up three quarters of the time — roughly the amount of time people spend every week superfluously driving places they don't want to go to visit people who don't want to see them.
“The most extraordinary change in Moscow was Arbat Street, the USSR's first pedestrian mall. Of course, there's something a little sad about a pedestrian mall in a nation where few people own cars— the whole damn country's a pedestrian mall.”
Holidays in Hell (1989)
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“Somewhere along the way America became a giant mall with a country attached.”
Source: Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
“It takes a village to make a mall. Community precedes commerce.”
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995), New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)
“O give me the sweet shady side of Pall Mall!”
Town and Country.
“We used to build civilizations. Now we build shopping malls.”
Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe (1991)
“Peacocks have the bright feathers. Fish have the long tails. Women have the mall.”
Source: My Double Life
On President Bush's potential veto of a new bill on stem-cell research; reported in Stem cell bill backers hopeful of success http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16545499/", NBC News (January 9, 2007).