So much of learning to be an American is learning not to let your individuality become a nuisance.

- Edgar Friedenberg

No American is prepared to attend his own funeral without the services of highly skilled cosmeticians. Part of the American dream, after all, is to l…

- Edgar Friedenberg

Canadians are more polite when they are being rude than Americans are when they are being friendly.

- Edgar Friedenberg

Juvenile delinquency serves many purposes, including that of providing sadistic adults with fantasies suited to their special tastes.

- Edgar Friedenberg

Those who love the young best stay young longer.

- Edgar Friedenberg

Part of the American dream is to live long and die young.

- Edgar Friedenberg

The teenager seems to have replaced the Communist as the appropriate target for public controversy and foreboding.

- Edgar Friedenberg

All weakness tends to corrupt, and impotence corrupts absolutely.

- Edgar Friedenberg

Human life is a continuous thread which each of us spins to his own pattern, rich and complex in meaning. There are no natural knots in it. Yet knots…

- Edgar Friedenberg