“When L.A.’s schizophrenia between Dreamland and Utopia was becoming socially manifest, the United States, which was always a place, went to war with America, which was always an idea.”
“A dream is always a place, but when you tell it, it becomes a story which is neither dream nor place.”
“Although most Americans believed in Manifest Destiny, few could agree on exactly which lands the United States was supposed to govern.”
“There has always been, and there is now, a profound conflict of interest between the people and the government of the United States.”
“In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea.”
“There is no difference between acute schizophrenia and a world at war.”