Who said “The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the…”?

“America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.”

“I am willing to love all mankind, except an American.”

“God bless the U.S.A., so large, So friendly, and so rich.”

“This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.”

“America, thou half-brother of the world; with something good and bad of every land.”

“A widespread taste for pornography means that nature is alerting us to some threat of extinction.”

“Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century.”

“Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute.”

“Electronic aids, particularly domestic computers, will help the inner migration, the opting out of reality. Reality is no longer going to be the stuff out there, but the stuff inside your head. It's going to be commercial and nasty at the same time.”

“I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.”

“A car crash harnesses elements of eroticism, aggression, desire, speed, drama, kinesthetic factors, the stylizing of motion, consumer goods, status -- all these in one event. I myself see the car crash as a tremendous sexual event really: a liberation of human and machine libido (if there is such a thing).”