The Hole in the Flag Quotes

“You do not belong in a place until you have made a joke in the native tongue.”
― Andrei Codrescu, The Hole in the Flag: A Romanian Exile's Story of Return & Revolution

“Americans, for the most part, take themselves entirely too seriously. They rarely see the absurdity of the television shows that they watch, of the hilarious silliness of shopping malls, or the dizzying frivolity of the unending fashions invented and discarded by the market.”
― Andrei Codrescu, The Hole in the Flag: A Romanian Exile's Story of Return & Revolution

“Among friends one remains the same age and in the same place where the friendship began.”
― Andrei Codrescu, The Hole in the Flag: A Romanian Exile's Story of Return & Revolution

“We hold the places of our youth unchanged in our minds and stay secretly young that way.”
― Andrei Codrescu, The Hole in the Flag: A Romanian Exile's Story of Return & Revolution