Money Quote by Thomas Pynchon

“Shit, money, and the World, the three American truths, powering the American mobility, claimed the Slothrops, clasped them for good to the country's fate.…

— Thomas Pynchon

“I realized that it was precisely because of America’s glaring imperfections that I should seek to participate in its progress, carve a place in…

— Eboo Patel

“We are all caught in the stream of a complicated legacy - a proof of the limits of human reason, a proof of our…

— Janna Levin

“...Sometimes one just had to forge on and let the chips fall where they may. After all, we were the ones in the trenches,…

— Delfi Messinger

“And always America is the place of the deathless and enraptured moments, the eye that looked, the mouth that smiled and vanished, and the…

— Thomas Wolfe

“It had happened again. I had met another American whose generosity, it began to seem to me, gushed out of the spirit of this…

— Peter Jenkins

“I had the feeling that all over America such stupid arguments were taking place on street corners and in bars and restaurants. All over…

— William S. Burroughs

“That was the best of the American spirit, I thought--having the audacity to believe despite all the evidence to the contrary that we could…

— Barack Obama

“We are the rich. We own America. We got it God knows how, but we intend to keep it.”

— Frederick Townsend Martin

“virtue of the American frontier and its allegedly salubrious”

— Eithne Luibhéid

“America, and all it had once stood for--all he had fought for--was dying...on life support, and counting.”

— Patricia Cori

“America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many.”

— Ralph Ellison