Quotes: Paranoia

My paranoia never ends, but I haven’t been paranoid about being spied on my shadowy forces for some time now.

Pol Pot carried out through the years enormous purges against his own followers because of his paranoia.

My own reaction from a distance is that Pol Pot’s demise as the leader of the Khmer Rouge was inevitable, and that his own paranoia did him in as much as anything else.

People can get obsessed with romance, they can get obsessed with political paranoia, they can get obsessed with horror. It’s isn’t the fault of the subject matter that creates the obsession, I don’t think.

Coming from Canada, being a writer and Jewish as well, I have impeccable paranoia credentials.

I always feel like an interloper when I do serious drama. It’s my own paranoia.

I think paranoia can be instructive in the right doses. Paranoia is a skill.

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.

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.

But when I first got cancer, after the initial shock and the fear and paranoia and crying and all that goes with cancer – that word means to most people ultimate death – I decided to see what I could do to take that negative and use it in a positive way.