America Quote by Jonathan Lethem

Before I got here, I thought for a long time that the way out of the labyrinth was to pretend that it did not…

— John Green

I actually enjoyed getting lost in Japan's backroads, finding myself in a wasabi farm.

— Travis Rice

“smuggling was a roaring trade around here. Ships used to anchor off the coast and smugglers would transport the goods to the beach and…

— Paul Moxham

They say that Japan's rigorous building codes and regulations saved thousands of lives over there. Or, as Republicans here saw it, it 'fostered a…

— Bill Maher

“There was a Japanese TV set in front of us. There were Japanese TV sets all over the prison. They were like portholes on…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I went to Tokyo when I was a child, but there's still so much of the country I'd like to explore.

— Caroline Flack

“This private estate was far enough away from the explosion so that its bamboos, pines, laurel, and maples were still alive, and the green…

— John Hersey

When I was in New York it was like a maze, a rat maze, going from one little box to another little box and…

— Bruce Conner

Back in the 1980s, state-of-the-nation fictions were all set in Manhattan. Now, they're all in Trump country. Early in 'S-Town,' we're introduced to an…

— David Hepworth

Living in Europe, I was surprised to find out just how little everyone knows about Japan.

— Hidetoshi Nakata

I grew up in the countryside and wanted to go to Tokyo. I had Tokyo complex.

— Makoto Shinkai

“country. The youngsters became independent; the idea of living isolated in a poor imitation of Japan was finished. We integrated into America.”

— Isabel Allende