The true America is the Middle West and Columbus discovered nothing at all except another Europe.
The office of the president is such a bastardized thing half royalty and half democracy that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit.
America is especially sensitive to war weariness, and nothing brings backlash like the perception of defeat. I say perception because America is a very all-or-nothing society… We like to know, and for...
The sorrows and disasters of Europe always brought fortune to America.
Thou oh my country hast thy foolish ways Too apt to purr at every stranger's praise.
God created war so that Americans would learn geography.
That’s what money will buy you, in America, Brown had said, firmly. People say Americans are materialistic. But do you know why? Why? asked Milgrim, more concerned with this uncharacteristically expan...
It had to be that Americans were taught, from elementary school, to always say something in class, no matter what. [...] They never said I don't know. They said, instead, I'm not sure, which did not g...
If you don't want to use the army I should like to borrow it for a while. Yours respectfully
Ours is a shockingly dead view of creation. We ourselves are the only things in the universe to which we grant an authentic vitality, and because of this we are not fully alive.
I believe our clever young man has intuited that while only the pursuit of happiness is promised to all Americans, unhappiness is guaranteed for many.
I had the feeling that all over America such stupid arguments were taking place on street corners and in bars and restaurants. All over America, people were pulling credentials out of their pockets an...
Alexa and the other guests, and perhaps even Georgina, all understood the fleeing from war, from the kind of poverty that crushed human souls, but they would not understand the need to escape from the...
When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white man came an Indian said simply 'Ours.'
The President spends most of his time kissing people on the cheek in order to get them to do what they ought to do without getting kissed.
Washington is a place where men praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost-benefit calculations.
As I write this, we are in an especially divisive era in American politics. There are questions about who holds power, who abuses it, who profits from it, and at what cost to our democracy. It is a ti...
You will find the Americans much as the Greeks found the Romans: great big vulgar bustling people more vigorous than we are and also more idle with more unspoiled virtues but also more corrupt.
Florida: God's waiting room.
The United States was born in the country and moved to the city in the nineteenth century.