Powerful Quotes on Home Ownership

If anything, there appears to be an inverse relationship between our growing obsession with the home as a totem object and the disintegration of families that has become the chief social phenomenon of...

The idea of a modest dwelling all our own, isolated from the problems of other people, has been our reigning metaphor of the good life for a long time. It must now be seen for what it really is: an an...

There is no object of desire quite like a house. Few things . . . are capable of eliciting such urgent, even painful, yearning.