Americans are pragmatic; we want quick, clean, simple solutions to vast problems. The paradox is that we’re a deeply confessional culture, but we’re not often contemplative. David Means Read Quote
Those who see beauty almost too intensely can easily look mad to those who are functioning within the confines of so-called normal life. David Means Read Quote
I love the nooks and crannies of the American landscape; the back roads and back alleys, the places that are still untouched by the corporate gloss, the veneer of sameness that seems to be spreading across the country. David Means Read Quote
I find the middle classes kind of boring. The middle class has kind of been beaten like a dead horse by fictional writers. It’s old news, and literature is supposed to bring new news, and for me, I feel I have to go as far out as I can to try and tell the kind of stories I want to tell. David Means Read Quote
A few days after 9/11, I put the old cassette of ‘Born in the U.S.A.,’ twisted and worn, on the car deck as I drove past West Point, across the Bear Mountain Bridge, along the Hudson River. It was the perfect moment to hear it. David Means Read Quote
