A boy, if he's lucky, discovers his limitations across a leisurely passage of years, with a self-awareness arriving slowly. That way, at least he has plenty of time to heroically imagine himself first. Most boys unfold in this natural, measured way, ...
nothing knee-jerk about their politics. Two out of three of them say that abortion is “always” or “usually” morally wrong. They are far more likely than voters age thirty and over to identify themselves as politically “strictly independent....
[T]he enduring problem for liberals, as for everyone else, is not whether history will judge them wise or foolish regarding the war on terrorism; it is, rather, the way that the past decade has splintered them away from other Americans. This fracture...
Raoul Duke: What was I doing here? What was the meaning of this trip? Was I just roaming around in a drug frenzy of some kind? Or had I really come out here to Las Vegas to work on a story? Who are these people, these faces? Where do they come from? ...
Bumpy Johnson: This is the problem. This is what's wrong with America. It's gotten so big, you just can't find your way. The grocery store on the corner is now a supermarket. The candy store is a MacDonald's. And this place, a super fucking discount ...
The truth is, immigrants tend to be more American than people born here.
To most Americans, a dog is a potential mate. To some Chinese, a dog is potential meat.
Longevity-and sanity. Eccentric old ladies on Harleys I can deal with.
It is impossible to exaggerate the wide, and widening, gulf between the American attitude on the Iraq war and the view from our friends across the Atlantic.
Prom has all the elements of a popular story. It reeks of all-Americanness, tension, drama. It has romance. Pretty dresses. Dancing. Limos. High school. Coming of age.
American nuclear reactors are well into middle age. The median age of an operating reactor in the U.S. is 34 years, placing start-up in midst of the Carter administration.
Everyone matures. When I was Newt's age, I thought I had the right answer to things. The baby-boomers as political leaders are still on trial by the American people.
If you consider film an art form, as some people do, then the Western would be a truly American art form, much as jazz is.
I don't think theater is dying, and musicals are a great American art form. We've got apple pie, jazz and musical theater.
Culture is always on the move.
you do your own time in prison. You don't do anyone else's time for them.
French name, English accent, American school. Anna confused.
It paid to be cultured, just as long as you didn't start growing bacteria.
Michigan, with its delicious American name. How lucky one must be to live there.
The American girl isn't ANY girl; she's a remarkable specimen in a remarkable species.
He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
