On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce
Department announced that the United
States had become a debtor nation, the
American Empire died.
-- Gore
Vidal
1925-,
American Novelist, Critic
Being American is to eat a lot of beef
steak, and boy, we've got a lot more
beef steak than any other country, and
that's why you ought to be glad you're
an American. And people have started
looking at these big hunks of bloody
meat on their plates, you know, and
wondering what on earth they think
they're doing.
-- Kurt
Vonnegut Jr.
1922-,
American Novelist
It's the movies that have really been
running things in America ever since
they were invented. They show you what
to do, how to do it, when to do it, how
to feel about it, and how to look how
you feel about it. Everybody has their
own America, and then they have the
pieces of a fantasy America that they
think is out there but they can't see.
-- Andy
Warhol
1930-,
American Artist, Filmmaker
I think the greatest curse of American
society has been the idea of an easy
millennialism -- that some new drug, or
the next election or the latest in
social engineering will solve
everything.
-- Robert
Penn Warren
1905-1989, American Writer, Poet
