JHK's best line - post your favourite

[HodgePodge]

"in the dreamland of Happy Motoring and Cheez Wiz"

[mjcrites]

"techno-narcissistic glop"  Love it.

[nissan03]

"....fire being nature's preferred dry-cleaning agent."

Wake Me, Shake Me  February 28, 2011
http://kunstler.com/blog/2011/02/wake-me-shake-me.html

[Karaokevox]

"We will do what reality compels us to do, not necessarily what our fantasies propose.

Of course, the toxic bullshit of incessant advertising and show biz for nearly a century has stripped us of cognitive abilities for dealing with reality that used to be part of the normal equipment of adulthood—for instance, knowing the difference between wishing for stuff and making stuff happen."  Daily Grunt, Kunstler.com

The whole idea of "turn key" businesses really bothers me.  In a small way it has helped "democratize" people with little or no education...mainly immigrants...because they come from the "third" world so they need help to acclimate to the new environment where they can buy a home and a car and everything else they see in American cinema for the past 50 years.
 

[billonions]

My favourite version of that KVox is, in regrades to states of reality.
 
 "Neurotics build castles of sand, psychotics try to live in them."  I guess it's a variation of a more famous quote.

  What would that make us?

  Oh yeah, "Life is what happens to you while your busy making plans."
  I beginning to see a theme here.

[Karaokevox]

Yes!

I have that quote from John Lennon running through my mind a lot lately!

[luciddreams]

I just hope Michele Bachman and her probable running mate, Jesus, don't steal the next election. They'll rip out the Obamas' vegetable garden and put a Nascar track there so that all of Ms. Bachman's 27 children can have jobs selling miniature bibles in the parking lot. ("Prayed over by qualified preachers twenty-four hours a day!")

http://kunstler.com/blog/2011/06/suspended-agitation.html

new favorite quote. 

[luciddreams]

But you can be sure Nature is telling you to get local, get smaller, get finer, downscale, solidify your friendships, and drop your stupid grandiose fantasies about running WalMart on algae. This is change you don't have to believe in, because it is about to jump up and bite you on the lips.

http://kunstler.com/blog/2011/08/change-you-dont-have-to-believe-in.html

nice!!

[kwellada]

Zinger!
"I like to think of Rick Perry as George W. Bush without all the encumbering intellect. I give it three months before media snoops catch him in bed with Michele Bachmann. The two of them will claim it was all right because Jesus was there as chaperone and anyway"

From today's CF Nation.  It's a classic blog entry 

[underthetree]

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[smellincoffee]

My favorite line from Geography of Nowhere is possibly...

Neighborhoods like Georgetown or Beacon Hill are walking neighborhoods. It is not necessary to hop in the car to get an ice cream cone or a bottle of aspirin. You walk to  a store -- enjoying the felicities of the street as you go -- and you are able to see other people along the way. You may even have a conversation with a stranger. This is called meeting people, the quintessential urban pleasure. (Or else it is called a mugging, the quintessential urban calamity.).

I essentially bought The City in Mind to experience him referring to Las  Vegas and Atlanta like this:

They say that Antarctica is the worst place on earth, but I believe that distinction belongs to Las Vegas, hands down. For one thing, Antarctica is more pleasing to look at.

And for sheer vitriolic pleasure...used in both Geography of Nowhere and the KunstlerCast:

Eighty percent of everything ever built in America has been built in the last fifty years, and most of it is depressing, brutal, ugly, unhealthy, and spiritually degrading -- the jive plastic computer tract home wastelands, the Potemkin village shopping plazas with their vast parking lagoons, the Lego block hotel complexes, the 'gourmet mansardic' junk-food joints, the Orwellian office 'parks' featuring buildings sheathed in the same reflective glass as the sunglasses worn by chain-gang guards, the particle board garden apartments rising up in every meadow and cornfield, the freeway loops around every big and little city with their clusters of discount merchandise marts, the whole destructive, wasteful, toxic, agoraphobic-inducing spectacle that politicians proudly call 'growth'."

[joshfuhrman]

This is not much of a line but I did laugh at a piece of dialogue between Duncan and JHK when I was re-listening to the podcast on bad behaviour (I think) where Duncan was describing his intolerance for people "rapping in his face" and Jim's subsequent confusion: "you mean like.. putting on a performance??" it was such a funny, poignant moment displaying a rational intelectual from an older generation attempting to comprehend a bizarre and somewhat commom feature of the life of the younger gen. I'm closer to Duncan's age and can picture this scenario perfectly. Sooo many douchebag males out there with no talent who feel that their ability to maintain a "flow" of a couple of stanza lines make them a genius. The baby clothes and metriculating in their mama's basement at the ripe age of 27 is a given of course.

[Ian Brett Cooper]

My favorite:

"Our suburbs will prove to be a huge liability. They represent the greatest misallocation of resources in the history of the world. "