“Later I would know some real workers – heavily tattooed, hair worn in ponytails, motorcycle-riding, manga-reading, and pill-popping – and I realized they were as batty as we were, far from the standardized robots of our fantasies. Americans, rich or poor, were a nation of weirdos.”

“Later I would know some real workers – heavily tattooed, hair worn in ponytails, motorcycle-riding, manga-reading, and pill-popping – and I realized they were as batty as we were, far from the standardized robots of our fantasies. Americans, rich or poor, were a nation of weirdos.”

— Edmund White