American Comic

Famous quotes containing the words american and/or comic:

“The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.”
—Edith Wharton (1862–1937)

“What the Journal posits is not the tragic question, the Madman’s question: “Who am I?”, but the comic question, the Bewildered Man’s question: “Am I?” A comic—a comedian, that’s what the Journal keeper is.”
—Roland Barthes (1915–1980)