A town that has no ceiling price A town of double-talk A town so big men name her twice Like so: 'N'Yawk N'Yawk.'
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...
A Bostonian - an American broadly speaking.
Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.
America - the best poor man's country in the world.
Poor Mexico so far from God and so near to the United States.
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.
America should care more for its poor and reform itself in other ways but even if it won't do those things it remains the least constrained society on earth.
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.
New York is notoriously inhospitable to the past disowning it whenever it can.
Washington is a city of people doing badly what shouldn't be done at all.
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.
America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true and the opposite is probably equally true.
Florida: God's waiting room.
He speaks English with the flawless imperfection of a New Yorker.
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...
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
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