You cannot hide the sun with one hand.
It is better to run back than run the wrong way.
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...
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 ...
Adults are more likely to act their way into a new way of thinking than to think their way into a new way of acting.
Different people have different ways of defining, living and maintaining relationships. Your way is not the only right way, it is merely your way. As far as right way is concerned, there isn't any. It is all about different opinions and perceptions.
Sometimes there's not a better way. Sometimes there's only the hard way.
I invented you the way I like but I have fallen for you the way you are.
There's no way I set out to be a certain kind of symbol - the way I dress is the way I am, the way I live my life.
Lewis: I don't have a mom, I have two dads. In your face.
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.
Don't let the American accent fool you. I am British.
An American citizen is not going to be extradited to Japan for saving whales.
American public policy is run on a myth.
