American-culture Quotes

Our politics, religion, news, athletics, education and commerce have been transformed into congenial...

But show business has always been like that - any kind of show business. If these people didn't live...

Their constant outward-looking, their mania for radios, cars, and a thousand other trinkets made the...

I felt that it was unfair that my lack of a few pounds of flesh should deprive me of a chance at a g...

Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel.

Our current modes of rationality are not moving society forward into a better world. They are taking...

That year, a middle-aged acquaintance asked me what my favorite book was and I said "On the Road." H...

The only crime is pride.

We Americans are not usually thought to be a submissive people, but of course we are. Why else would...

[N]ow that I am drawing to the close of this work, in which I have spoken of so many important thing...

What gets me about the United States is that it pretends to be honest and therefore has so little ro...

A woman today who has no goal, no purpose, no ambition patterning her days into the future, making h...

There is something less than fully human in those who have never known a commitment to an idea, who ...

Woman's sexual problems are, in this sense, by-products of the suppression of her basic need to grow...

[Americans] were, for one thing, so smitten with the idea of progress that they invented things with...

[Traveling] makes you realize what an immeasurably nice place much of America could be if only peopl...

Since the end of the postwar economic boom, certain strategies have been intensified to stimulate co...

I was once in San Francisco, and I parked in the only available space, which happened to be on the o...

American journalism (like the journalism of any other country) is predominantly paltry and worthless...

I, too, like yourself was a good party man: my party was that of the Church; I was ultramontane. You...

...that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I didn’t know who I ...