A great deal of what many Americans hold dear is nowhere written on those four pages of parchment, or in any of the amendments. What has made the Constitution durable is the same as what makes it dema...
Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
If ever there was an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptown-on-the-Hudson called New York.
There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.
I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture.
Why do they [Americans] quarrel, why do they hate Negroes, Indians, even Germans, why do they not have science and poetry commensurate with themselves, why are there so many frauds and so much nonsens...
It may be shocking to some people in this country to realize that, without meaning to do so, they hold views in common with Hitler when they preach discrimination against other religious, racial or ec...
All around us were people I had spent ten years avoiding--shapeless women in wool bathing suits, dull-eyed men with hairless legs and self-conscious laughs, all Americans, all fearsomely alike. These...
Chicago - a facade of skyscrapers facing a lake and behind the facade every type of dubiousness.
So, Americans, then. Self-appointed vigilante defenders of the world, kind of like Superman, if Superman was retarded and only fought crime when he felt like it.
Whoever wants to know the hearts and minds of America had better learn baseball.
We are now at the point where we must decide whether we are to honour the concept of a plural society which gains strength through diversity or whether we are to have bitter fragmentation that will r...
The Americans of the United States do not let their dogs hunt the Indians as do the Spaniards in Mexico, but at bottom it is the same pitiless feeling which here, as everywhere else, animates the Euro...
There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right it is the ideal American who is all wrong.
I was telling them about back home and how all the boys were chasing me because I was half-caste, and they said I was dissing myself. So now I say biracial, and I'm supposed to be offended when somebo...
I shall enter on no encomium upon Massachussets she needs none. There she is. Behold her and judge for yourselves.
That enfabled rock that ship of life that swarming million-footed tower-masted sky-soaring citadel that bears the magic name of the Island of Manhattan.
the greatest Americanshave not been born yetthey are waiting patientlyfor the past to die
Good Americans when they die go to Paris.
Nothing ever gets settled in this town (Washington). It's not like running a company or even a university. It's a seething debating society in which the debate never stops in which people never give...