It is considered a rather cheerful axiom that all Americans distrust politicians. (No one takes the further and less cheerful step of considering just what effect this mutual contempt has on either th...
There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.
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...
If ever there was an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptown-on-the-Hudson called New York.
I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture.
Good Americans when they die go to Paris.
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...
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.
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...
Stormy husky brawling City of the Big Shoulders.
A Bostonian - an American broadly speaking.
America once had the clarity of a pioneer axe.
The swaggering underemphasis of New England.
Chicago - a facade of skyscrapers facing a lake and behind the facade every type of dubiousness.
A natural New Yorker is a native of the present tense.
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...
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...
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...
Whoever wants to know the hearts and minds of America had better learn baseball.