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Something is wrong with America. I wonder sometimes what people are thinking about or if they're thinking at all.

Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be.

I am not a political thinker. I'm not even much of a thinker. I'm a hack novelist.

You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.

The Americans are completely stupid. The intellectual level in any single European country is higher than in America.

There are thoughts we must not think.

There's less critical thinking going on in this country on a Main Street level - forget about the media - than ever before. We've never needed people to think more critically than now, and they've taken a big nap.

There's a certain je ne sais quoi that Americans have in spades - a we-can-do-anything spirit that makes so many things possible for all of us. We're rugged individualists, aspirational in nature, and we like to think for ourselves.