I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
—J. D. Salinger
A fellow who is always declaring he's no fool usually has his suspicions.
—Wilson Mizner
I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
—J. D. Salinger
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.
—Gertrude Stein
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
—Jean Rostand
Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house.
—James Thurber