“America is not the world.”
“America, half-brother of the world!”
“Who leads the world in consumption? America! Who has more lawyers per capita? America! Who has the highest incarceration rate? America! What is the greatest country on earth? America!”
“America is half a world gone mad.”
“To Europe she was America. To America she was the gateway to the earth. But to tell the story of New York would be to write a social history of the world.”
“Sex: In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact.”