In America, with all its evils and faults, you can still reach through the forest and see the sun. But we do not know yet whether the sun is rising or setting for our country. – Dick Gregory, 1964

The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It – J. G. Ballard

America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true, and the opposite is probably equally true. – James T. Farrell