I'm not expecting the American literary community to welcome me with open arms. To them I'm just some schmuck kid who wrote some book.
I prefer to remake flops. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was a remake of a flop, and The Quiet American is a remake of a flop.
Within the soul of each Vietnam veteran there is probably something that says “Bad war, good soldier.” Only now are Americans beginning to separate the war from the warrior.
The Bush Administration claims there is a Social Security crisis only to distract Americans from its serious mismanagement of the federal budget.
There's something about an American soldier you can't explain. They're so grateful for anything, even a film actress coming to see them.
Without that assured American largesse Israel would have been obliged to come to an accommodation with her neighbours.
No feature of the Obama presidency has been sadder than its constant efforts to divide us, to curry favor with some Americans by castigating others.
If we don't believe in Americans, who will? I do believe. I've seen it in the people of our very typical corner of the nation.
That's what I think is smart about 'Durham County.' It's not derivative of anything American. It's more in the vein of the BBC miniseries I grew up with.
I live in Santa Barbara. My wife's American, and she lived in England for 11 years and then told me she'd had enough.
The oil companies are gouging the American citizenry aggressively, relentlessly, and without any sense of conscience whatsoever.
It's clear price gouging... The oil companies are gouging the American citizenry aggressively, relentlessly, and without any sense of conscience whatsoever.
I think being a foreigner and talking about Hollywood allowed me to use some cliches and some references that an American would maybe not use.
Wisdom of the Ages: "The Pope and Congress" It looks as if confidence in the American voter to exorcise the demons in the Capitol has completely fallen through.
The economy may be complex, but Americans understand that the Wall Street banks control an outsized portion of the economy and that they have an outsized interest in their own profits.
If sexual intercourse, as the poets tell us, began in 1963, it was another decade and a half before the American political system began to take notice.
Rand Paul comes off like an academic stiff who wants to give us a lecture on American civics.
The poorest residents of the gulf coast were most affected by the devastating hurricanes, and the poorest Americans have shouldered a disproportionate share of the burden in Iraq.
I think the prom is very serious also. It's an American ritual, it's a rite of passage, and it's very much a part of this country.
I'm so disappointed in the frat parties at Columbia. I'm like an English boy going to an American college. I'm thinking cheerleaders, I'm thinking kegs. That's not what's on the cards.
The only way to kill militancy, to reduce it, is to provide opportunities to people who have no opportunities. I've always told my American friends that.
