What is worst about America was acted out. What is best in America doesn't export.
It's all about letting the story take over.
If you haven't fought for your life for something you want, you don't know what's life all about.
It's easy to create a country, all you have to do is to think of a name for it
The term [Americanization] invokes the transformation of the landscape into unnatural mechanical shapes, of night into day, of speed for its own sake, an irrational passion for novelty at the expense of quality, a worship of gimmickry.
There’s only one subject for fiction or poetry or even a joke: how it is. In all the arts, the payoff is always the same: recognition. If it works, you say that’s real, that’s truth, that’s life, that’s the way things are. ‘There it is.’