Suburbia/Quotes

"Rodney: Did you ever hear of Ozone Heights?

Venus: No, what are they?

Rodney: It's a great big new real estate development over on Staten Island. Every bungalow's the same. They got an electric incinerator and a radio that looks like a fireplace--

Venus: And a fireplace that looks like a radio?

Rodney: Yes. And when you sign the lease, you get a year's subscription to the Reader's Digest! And I almost forgot the most important thing of all--a dandy big yard for the kiddies when they start to come along."

- One Touch of Venus

"Little boxes on the hillside,

Little boxes made of ticky-tacky,

Little boxes on the hillside,

Little boxes all the same.

There's a green one and a pink one

And a blue one and a yellow one,

And they're all made out of ticky-tacky

And they all look just the same."

- Malvina Reynolds

"I often hear people talk about how to deal with the problem of the suburbs — the problem being that they're ecologically unsustainable and that they're intrinsically soul-destroying."

- Adam Cadre, reviewing A Pattern Language

"Ah, the suburbs. Fostering the illusion of success since 1950."

- Daffy Duck, The Looney Tunes Show, "Newspaper Thief"