It's the movies that have really been running things in America ever since they were invented. They show you what to do, how to do it, when to do it, how to feel about it, and how to look how you feel about it

If you're going to San Francisco, Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair

Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms

From the American newspapers, you'd think America was populated by naked women and cinema stars

America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization

I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic

Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America--not on the battlefields of Vietnam

Our flag is red, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbow-red, yellow, brown, black and white-and we're all precious in God's sight

People say New Yorkers can't get along. Not true. I saw two New Yorkers, complete strangers, sharing a cab. One guy took the tires and the radio' the other guy took the engine

American grammar doesn't have the sturdiness of British grammar (a British advertising man with a proper education can make magazine copy for ribbed condoms sound like the Magna goddam Carta), but it has its own scruffy charm