A paranoiac, like a poet, is born, not made.
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.
I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
I don't believe in fate or destiny. I believe in various degrees of hatred, paranoia, and abandonment. However much of that gets heaped upon you doesn't matter - it's only a matter of how much you can take and what it does to you.
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean there isn't somebody watching.
Coming from Canada, being a writer and Jewish as well, I have impeccable paranoia credentials.
There's a deep-seated paranoia that Americans have about not being Americans or something.
Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.
Paranoid? Probably. But just because you're paranoid doesn't mean there isn't an invisible demon about to eat your face.
You're mind is working at its best when you're being paranoid. You explore every avenue and possibility of your situation at high speed with total clarity.
I'm scared to death of being poor. It's like a fat girl who loses 500 pounds but is always fat inside. I grew up poor and will always feel poor inside. It's my pet paranoia.
Paranoia is knowing all the facts.
A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.
I got this idea about being afraid to let go of something and being afraid of sinking into a state of almost anesthesia, where you have to trust other people. Just the paranoia of it all. And it seemed to suit the frenetic track. So I just wrote it out and, you know, said it.
Sometimes paranoia's just having all the facts.
Paranoia is just having the right information.
I always feel like an interloper when I do serious drama. It's my own paranoia.
Princess Rose should indeed be a TV movie, assuming something doesn't go wrong. I don't know how good a movie it will be, because the way movie folk think is different from the way writers think, and I distrust what isn't done my way. This is what I call a healthy paranoia.
Imagine a thousand more such daily intrusions in your life, every hour and minute of every day, and you can grasp the source of this paranoia, this anger that could consume me at any moment if I lost control.
Perfect paranoia is perfect awareness.
or simply: