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The country makes me more paranoid, you know? I think the crazy people out there are little crazier.

I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

It's amazing where the paranoid mind can take you.

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

Strange how paranoia can link up with reality now and then.

There is a paranoid streak in American life. Radio talk show hosts tend to foment that paranoid streak in American life.

You discover how confounding the world is when you try to draw it. You look at a car, and you try to see its car-ness, and you're like an immigrant to your own world. You don't have to travel to encounter weirdness. You wake up to it.

There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment.

I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.

I suppose there must be some way in which I'm compelled to show some side of myself - or of people - that's paranoid and fraught and beleaguered and downtrodden, just as Tom Cruise wants to show that he's terrifyingly upbeat and terrifyingly heroic all the time.