America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true and the opposite is probably equally true.
New York, the nation's thyroid gland.
He was an American character, one typical of men of his generation, men who embraced the notion of freedom and individualism and the open road without always knowing its price, and whose enthusiasms c...
America - the best poor man's country in the world.
Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.
New England is a finished place. Its destiny is that of Florence or Venice not Milan while the American empire careens onward toward its predicted end ... it is the first American section to be fini...
New York is notoriously inhospitable to the past disowning it whenever it can.
Florida: God's waiting room.
In the United States 'First' and 'Second' class can't be painted on railroad cars for all passengers being Americans are equal and it would be 'unAmerican.' But paint 'Pullman' on a car and everyon...
Americans have a special horror of letting things happen their own way without interference. They would like to jump down their stomachs digest the food and shovel the shit out.
Part of the American dream is to live long and die young.
Washington is a city of people doing badly what shouldn't be done at all.
After twenty annual visits I am still surprised each time I return to see this giant asparagus bed of alabaster and rose and green skyscrapers.
Poor Mexico so far from God and so near to the United States.
The American's conversation is much like his courtship ... He gives an inkling and watches for a reaction if the weather looks fair he inkles a little more. Wishing neither to intrude nor be intrude...
You know, if you're an American and you're born at this time in history especially, you're lucky. We all are. We won the world history Powerball lottery.
On either side of them the essence of honky tonk beach resort had now enclosed them: gas stations, fried clam stands, Dairy Treets, motels painted in feverish pastel colors, mini golf. Larry was drawn...
Later Ginika said, You could have just said Ngozi is your tribal name and Ifemelu is your jungle name and throw in one more as your spiritual name. They’ll believe all kinds of shit about Africa