When the earth is hot, the worm stays in the ground.
Hens perched on top will shit on those below.
You cannot hide the sun with one hand.
When civilians are not asked to pay any price, it's easy to be at war - not just to intervene in a foreign land in the first place, but to keep on fighting there. The justifications for staying at war don't have to be particularly rational or cogentl...
I am a child of the American Century, and I feel a genetic commitment to understanding why it happened, and why I take it so personally.
Statistically, if you're reading this sentence, you're an oddball. The average American spends three minutes a day reading a book. At this moment, you and I are engaged in an essentially antiquated interaction. Welcome, fellow Neanderthal!
As often I have been a science fiction writer writing science fiction for the community of science fiction readers, I am also, for good or ill, an American writing American literature to an American audience. Most fundamentally, though, I am a human ...
I have four relatively small children, and around fourth grade, they start doing big projects on Native Americas: everything is Native Americans in elementary school. Do you know how many Native American dresses I've sewn, on and on; it's a full year...
I part of this great nation because my grandfather was born here, in Cincinnati, Ohio. He took a horse, back in 1895, and ride it all the way down to Guanajuato, looking for his American dream. No penny in his pocket, only dreams in his head. And he ...
You're just another american who is willfully ignorant of the big red, white and blue dick being shoved up your asshole every day... The owners of this country know the truth... it's called the American dream because you have to be asleep to believe ...
I leave behind this hurricane of f***ing lies
...there is reinforcement in such familiar back-formations as Chinee from Chinese, Portugee from Portuguese.... (p. 111)
And the fools… well, the fools are there for us to fleece and then to show mercy.
Country music has become the music that best represents the reality of American life.
An American citizen is not going to be extradited to Japan for saving whales.
American public policy is run on a myth.
At this point, American workers are pretty respectful of the bosses they loathe.
Barack Obama is betting on the American worker.
High school dropouts are forfeiting their opportunity to pursue the American Dream.
For decades the American people have had an addiction to oil and gas.
The African American community is so under-served in the entertainment industry.
