The most important American addition to the World Experience was the simple surprising fact of America. We have helped prepare mankind for all its later surprises.

As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has been abandoned. We have fallen in love with our own image, with images of our making, which turn out to be images of ourselves.

The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event.

Daniel J. Boorstin Quotes