“Seems like the only kind of job an American can get these days is committing suicide in some way.”— Kurt Vonnegut, amazon.com
“AmerisourceBergen, the nation’s third largest drug distributor, shipped 60.9 million hydrocodone pills and 26.6 million oxycodone tablets to West Virginia. That’s 33 hydrocodone pills and 15.5 oxycodone pills for every man, woman and child in West Virginia.”— Eric Eyre, wvgazettemail.com
“I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me”— Muhammad Ali, dakrolak.tumblr.com
“ADHD wasn’t even considered a diagnosis for the adult population until after 2006, when the American Journal of Psychiatry published a study claiming that 4.4 percent of the U.S. adult population had ADHD. That opened the floodgates for adult use of ADHD drugs. More ADHD diagnoses translated to more…”— Kate Bielamowicz, daily.jstor.org
“But that's the challenge -- to change the system more than it changes you.”— Michael Pollan, amazon.com
“When we talk about race relations in America or racial progress, it’s all nonsense. There are no race relations. White people were crazy. Now they’re not as crazy. To say that black people have made progress would be to say they deserve what happened to them before.”— Chris Rock, vulture.com
“American experience seems to suggest that people are virtually unlimited in their need to give themselves away, on various levels. Some just prefer to do it in secret.”— David Foster Wallace, amazon.com
“Ever since it has been inadvertent brilliance, this country has been one big huge accident, slouching toward perfection.”— Elizabeth Wurtzel, amazon.com
“. . . in America, we have achieved the Orwellian prediction - enslaved, the people have been programmed to love their bondage and are left to clutch only mirage-like images of freedom, its fables and fictions. The new slaves are linked together by vast electronic chains of television that imprison n…”— Gerry Spence, amazon.com
“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long…”— Abraham Lincoln, abrahamlincolnonline.org
“Do not deny history. American culture is based on novelty, on difference; Europeans are not interested in new ways as much as they are interested in refining a concept which has existed through the centuries. It is a continuing evolution, not a revolution.”— Massimo Vignelli, amazon.com
“I am the prototype, the perfect American. Half out of control, violent, drunk, high on drugs, carrying a .44 Magnum. Rather than being strange, I may be the embodiment of the national character... all the twisted notions that have made this country the beast it is.”— Hunter S. Thompson, flickr.com