“In America, the least amusing people are its professional entertainers.”

“People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained. Celebration is an active state, an act of expressing reverence or appreciation. To be entertained is a passive state--it is to receive pleasure afforded by an amusing act or a spectacle.... Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one's actions.Source: The Wisdom of Heschel”

“Becoming a successful professional writer implies that one's own mind is entertaining enough to keep the work interesting. ”

“Asia is an entertainment, Europe is a dream, America is an imprisonment and Rest is a nightmare.”

“America is the first culture in jeopardy of amusing itself to death.”

“America is the only country where a significant proportion of the population believes that professional wrestling is real but the moon landing was faked.”