“There are things in American culture that want to wipe the class disti...” — Leslie Fiedler Quote

“There are things in American culture that want to wipe the class distinction. Blue jeans. Ready-made clothes. Coca-Cola.”

“I gave up writing blurbs because you make one friend and 200 enemies.”

“Henry Miller wrote novels, but he calls his protagonist Henry, often Henry Miller, and his books are in this gray area between memoir and novel.”

“One more recent novelist to come along is Cormac McCarthy. Him, I like.”

“It's funny to be a critic.”

“When all of us are forgotten, people will still be remembering Stephen King.”

“Occasionally, I've been asked to do American roles, and once or twice I have, but I don't understand Americans. I don't have any real feeling for American culture.”

“It's a very generous culture, American culture. I know you can't generalize 300 million people, but everyone I've met here has been so lovely to me.”

“I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn't very difficult.”

“I sang the 'Sunday Night Football' theme song two years in a row - my first part in American culture, although I still don't know anything about American football.”

“Discrimination is against the fundamental values of American culture.”

“I try to be as honest as I possibly can about the contradictions within my own heart and thereby get to something 'true' and revealing and important about contemporary American culture and human nature.”