When I was a schoolboy in England, the old bound volumes of Kipling in the library had gilt swastikas embossed on their covers. The symbol's 'hooks' were left-handed, as opposed to the right-handed ones of the Nazi , but for a boy growing up after 19...
In the spring of her twenty-second year, Sumire fell in love for the first time in her life. An intense love, a veritable tornado sweeping across the plains—flattening everything in its path, tossing things up in the air, ripping them to shreds, cr...
There were many deficits in our swamp education, but Grandpa Sawtooth, to his credit, taught us the names of whole townships that had been forgotten underwater. Black pioneers, Creek Indians, moonshiners, women, 'disappeared' boy soldiers who deserte...
The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others.
Since the age of 12, all my musical thinking has been influenced by Afro-American music.
I absolutely love American folk art, can't get enough of it.
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, yadda yadda yadda.
Mostly you are what they think you are.
Helping each other out, that's America.
To Americans, either/or means both.
It was typical of the American to identify the one unfinished strand.
Innocence is a kind of insanity
Americans believe cotton is best, but we've invented new fabrics that will change your lifestyle.
By the year 2000, most Americans will be online one way or another.
Americans deserve a better tomorrow, today.
I'm the first American designer who went all over the world.
Often, Americans think any northern English accent is Australian.
No man surely has so short a memory as the American.
We're living through the twilight of American economic dominance.
I've always been interested in how we survive and how resourceful we are as Americans.
Don't you ever just think of yourself as American?
