“There is no literature and art without paranoia. Probably there would be even civilization. Paranoia is the world. It is the attempt to make sense of what has not.”
“paranoia is just a heightened sense of awareness”
“Paranoia has a sharper taste if the danger is real.”
“All through my life I've had this strange unaccountable feeling that something was going on in the world, something big, even sinister, and no one would tell me what it was." "No," said the old man, "that's just perfectly normal paranoia. Everyone in the Universe has that.”
“Candor disarms paranoia.”
“Paranoia is at most annoying!”