We're celebrating America's spirit together. This is the theme for America as well as all Americans.

American grammar doesn't have the sturdiness of British grammar (a British advertising man with a proper education can make magazine copy for ribbed condoms sound like the Magna goddam Carta), but it has its own scruffy charm

To be a Negro in America is to hope against hope.

The major challenge for the United States is whether it can become the first outward-looking, continental, nonimperialist power in history.

The United States basically accepted protection abroad as the price of post-war recovery. Now, that these countries have caught up to our level of prosperity, it is time for them to catch up to our level of openness.

Gangster films reflect America, and that's what Americans are most interested in.