Coming from Canada, being a writer and Jewish as well, I have impeccable paranoia credentials.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I'm basically an Upper West Side Jewish writer.
My paranoia never ends, but I haven't been paranoid about being spied on my shadowy forces for some time now.
It's amazing where the paranoid mind can take you.
I will never be one of the happy stupid that were born somewhere. This way of life is excellent for the imagination. It develops your paranoia. You feel paranoid when you don't understand a country, and being paranoiac is excellent for fiction.
I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself.
And I know I'm paranoid and neurotic, I've made a career out of it.
I have no religion, but I can't escape being extremely Jewish ethnically - that is, culturally. In other words, I'm not religious, but I worry and I'm neurotic. And I'm very good with money.
I have a 10-year track record of writing for the Jewish community.
I enjoy a special collegiality among other writers in the thriller community. They call me 'Canada's scariest writer,' and I love that.
There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment.