“ In Europe one gets used to doing nothing. You sit on your ass and whine all day. You get contaminated. You rot. Henry Miller
“ Bulgaria, I reflected as I walked back to the hotel, isn’t a country; it’s a near-death experience. Bill Bryson
“ The Presidential election has given me less anxiety than I myself could have imagined. The next administration will be a troublesome one, to whomsoever it falls, and our John has been too much worn to… John Adams
“ The Europeans hate us because we’ve retired to live inside our advertisements, like hermits going into caves to contemplate. We sleep in symbolic bedrooms, eat symbolic meals, are symbolically enterta… Christopher Isherwood
“ Should I, too, prefer the title of 'non-Jewish Jew'? For some time, I would have identified myself strongly with the attitude expressed by Rosa Luxemburg, writing from prison in 1917 to her anguished… Christopher Hitchens
“ This is the kind of paradox, I think, of what it is to be a halfway intelligent American right now, and probably also a Western European, is that there are things we know are right, and good, and woul… David Foster Wallace
“ I was having dinner…in London…when eventually he got, as the Europeans always do, to the part about Your country’s never been invaded. And so I said, Let me tell you who those bad guys are. They’re us… P.J. O'Rourke
“ It takes no more research than a trip to almost any public library or college to show the incredibly lopsided coverage of slavery in the United States or in the Western Hemisphere, as compared to the… Thomas Sowell
“ They would come with languages that sounded like dog bark; with a childish hunger for animal fur. They would forever fence land, ship whole trees to faraway countries, take any women for quick pleasur… Toni Morisson
“ What do you want with these special Jewish pains? I feel as close to the wretched victims of the rubber plantations in Putamayo and the blacks of Africa with whose bodies the Europeans play ball… I ha… Rosa Luxemburg
“ Europe, the land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts. The land where the economy gets to stagger all over the continent. Núria Añó
