‘America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy’.
– John Updike, ‘How to Love America and Leave it at the Same Time’, The New Yorker, 19 August 1972, 25.
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Great quote Jason, it says so much! Sadly, America has affected many other country’s in this vast hedonism!
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