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America is in a state of somnolence. It's an avoidance of paranoia through ignoring reality.

There is a paranoid streak in American life. Radio talk show hosts tend to foment that paranoid streak in American life.

There's a physicality and confidence to Americans; they're very present. That's something I enjoy being around because it rubs off on you.

I believe the American people have a genuine and justifiable fear of government intrusion in what they instinctively know is going to be an ever more intrusive world.

Americans are xenophobic, they will believe their own people rather than the adversary, even a friendly enemy voice.

Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are.

One can not be an American by going about saying that one is an American. It is necessary to feel America, like America, love America and then work.

Americans are nervous; Americans are restless; and what troubles me the most is that Americans are uncharacteristically pessimistic.

I've always felt that Americans are very in the moment. There's not so much melancholia and mystery as there is in France. Everything must be understood. Everything must be analyzed.

It is easy to dismiss the world as 'irrelevant,' or consumed by 'paranoid anti-Americanism,' but perhaps not wise.