Art Quote by Thomas Pynchon

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

— Stan Goff

“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

“...Paranoid art, unlike paranoid persons, also distrusts itself. And so, paranoid art is the ultimate opposite, the urgent opposite, of complacent art.”

— Jonathan Lethem

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

— Genevieve Cogman

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

— Gerald Everett Jones

Paranoia imposes its own vision on the external world; it differs from other kinds of visionary experience in that the paranoid wants others to…

— Louis Simpson

“Paranoia. The more you think of an imaginary problem, the more you feel as though it’s real –”

— Simona Panova

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

— Megan Shepherd

“Paranoia is sometimes the best way a person can handle situations in life.”

— Ronald K. Siegel

“Paranoia is when you think everyone is talking about you and they’re not. Hell is when you think everyone is talking about you and…

— Juliann Rich

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

— Dr. Johnny Fever

“It is always reassuring to be disabused of one's own paranoia.”

— Muriel Barbery