Any North American state is more important than Uruguay, in dimensions, in its economic force.
As a child of West Texas, I identify with Hispanic culture every bit as much as I do North American culture.
I have taken part in ceremonies with North American and Mexican shamans, as well as Brazilian ceremonies.
I am an American, but a sense of otherness was part of my growing up. I spoke Norwegian before I spoke English. My mother is Norwegian.
Along with 'Wet Hot American Summer' and 'The Room,' 'Lebowski' belongs in the canon of nouveau cult classics.
Typically, only about 2 percent of the American populace tunes in to PBS's 'Nova' series - the most successful science show on the tube. 'Survivor' and 'X Factor' get twice the ratings.
The American press has the blues. Too many authorities have assured it that its days are numbered, too many good newspapers are in ruins.
The state of Israel seems to owe its very existence to the American Jewish vote, while at the same time consigning the non-religious to political oblivion.
The American pledge not to negotiate with terrorists has been honored more in the breach than the observance from the moment President Ronald Reagan made it.
During this period, Japan's peaceful commercial relations were successively obstructed, primarily by the American rupture of commercial relations, and this was a grave threat to the survival of Japan.
Corn occupies a really special role in what I've been calling American agro-economics.
The American professional schedule gives players a six-month off-season, so many of us have become pickup regulars while training without an organized team.
American oil companies - including Amoco, Unocal, Exxon, Pennzoil - have invested billions of dollars in Azerbaijan and plan to invest billions more. As a result, they have developed a strongly pro-Azerbaijan position.
Please don't begin to believe that the American political establishment is anything but a corrupt puppet of oligarchy.
You show up at the Olympics, and you're no longer you; you're an American Olympian. You're part of this greater whole, and the individual doesn't matter.
An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.
The Christians had a better chance against the lions than the American consumer has against the OPEC cartel.
As the cost of gasoline rises and our dependence on foreign oil continues to increase, the effect of sending over $100 billion each year to OPEC nations hurts every American.
'American Gods' was designed to be, if not open-ended, at least a trilogy kind of shape, so there's definitely one more book, probably another couple of books there to get written.
Robert Rauschenberg was not a giant of American art; he was the giant. No American created so many aesthetic openings for so many artists.
