Famous quotes containing the words journal and/or american:
“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)
“The American ideal is youth—handsome, empty youth.”
—Henry Miller (1891–1980)