Gertrude Stein Quote

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 and they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are.

"The Capital and Capitals of the United States of America," New York Herald Tribune (9 March 1935) - How Writing Is Written: Previously Uncollected Writings, vol.II (1974)