“I must say it's pretty dreary living in the American Age - unless you're an American of course. Perhaps all our children will be Americans.”

“...I didn't feel that I was an American at all, with all that suburban ideal and sex repression and general dreary newspaper grey censorship of all our real human values...”

“I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American. ”

“I was born an American, I live like an American, I will die an American.”

“This is the clearest, most powerful summons yet, TO ALL OF US, to restore the American story to its rightful, vital place in American life and in how we educate our children. It couldn’t be more timely and important.”

“You'll say things all wrong but they'll at once become American ways of saying things. You won't know shit but it'll right away become an American type of ignorance. Not belonging, that's an old American tradition, see?, that's the American way.”