“You are still you. The U.S. is still the U.S., held together by credit cards and Indian names”

“I'm sure I still have boundaries-like the continental U.S, for example.”

“In the U.S. you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.”

“Where is the motorcycle?”“I ditched it. Someone will find it sooner or later and return it to the rental company.”“Not in the U.S.”“We're not in the U.S., in case you haven't noticed. People don't steal lost property, they return it.”“How did you get this car?”“I stole it.”

“The U.S. is a cosmetic democracy.”

“We know from our recent history that English did not come to replace U.S. Indian languages merely because English sounded musical to Indians' ears. Instead, the replacement entailed English-speaking immigrants' killing most Indians by war, murder, and introduced diseases, and the surviving Indians' being pressured into adopting English, the new majority language.”