我们周围的人是我花了十年的时间来避免穿着羊毛泳衣的无形象的女性，无毛腿的呆板男人和自觉的笑声，所有的美国人，都是恐惧的。我想应该把这些人放在家里。将它们锁在一些该死的麋鹿俱乐部的地下室中，并让他们与色情电影安抚；如果他们想要度假，请给他们看一部外国艺术电影。如果它们仍然不满意，请将它们送入旷野，并用恶毒的狗来运行它们。
(All around us were people I had spent ten years avoiding--shapeless women in wool bathing suits, dull-eyed men with hairless legs and self-conscious laughs, all Americans, all fearsomely alike. These people should be kept at home, I thought; lock them in the basement of some goddamn Elks Club and keep them pacified with erotic movies; if they want a vacation, show them a foreign art film; and if they still aren't satisfied, send them into the wilderness and run them with vicious dogs.)