Quote by Ron Chernow

“Paranoia, he said, was fundamentally egocentric, and every conspiracy theory served in some way to aggrandize the believer. But he was also fond of…

— William Gibson

“Paranoids are not paranoid because they're paranoid, but because they keep putting themselves, fucking idiots, deliberately into paranoid situations.”

— Thomas Pynchon

“Paranoia had crept into that part of my brain usually reserved for reason.”

— Megan Shepherd

“Madness, he thought. The ultimate horror for our para­noid culture: vicious unseen mechanical entities that flit at the edges of our vision, that can…

— Philip K. Dick

“If everyone is out to get you paranoia is only good thinking”

— Dr. Johnny Fever

“Paranoia is transmissible from mind to mind, but it does not go by the route of reason. It can therefore change its rationalization while…

— William Nicholls

“But paranoids might have real enemies and obsessives might obsess about really important stuff.”

— Stan Goff

“Paranoia was always a potential side effect.”

— Kimberly Derting

The idea of the paranoid style as a force in politics would have little contemporary relevance or historical value if it were applied only…

— Richard Hofstadter

“Paranoia is just a heightened state of awareness. I didn't say it, but I repeat it often enough.”

— Gerald Everett Jones

“The problem with paranoia was that if you let it rule all your decisions, then you would miss some perfectly good opportunities.”

— Genevieve Cogman

“As a member of the avant-garde who is capable of perceiving the conspiracy before it is fully obvious to an as yet unaroused public,…

— Richard Hofstadter