My paranoia never ends, but I haven't been paranoid about being spied on my shadowy forces for some time now.

- Jon Ronson

Pol Pot carried out through the years enormous purges against his own followers because of his paranoia.

- Sydney Schanberg

This is a do-it-yourself test for paranoia: you know you've got it when you can't think of anything that's your fault.

- Robert M. Hutchins

I have a paranoia that 'Ablutions' is the best thing I'll ever do.

- Patrick deWitt

I got this idea about being afraid to let go of something and being afraid of sinking into a state of almost anesthesia, where you have to trust other people. Just the paranoia of it all. And it seemed to suit the frenetic track. So I just wrote it out and, you know, said it.

- Nick Rhodes

The '50s and the '70s are sort of similar in that they're both times of major paranoia in America.

- Noah Hawley

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

- Mordecai Richler

I think paranoia can be instructive in the right doses. Paranoia is a skill.

- John Shirley

I think everybody knows they have to be vigilant with their children. I don't have anything profound to say on that subject. We all know that we have to watch the children. The question is when does it become absolute paranoia?

- Jeanne Phillips

Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.

- Jack Henry Abbott

There's a deep-seated paranoia that Americans have about not being Americans or something.

- Billy Joel

I always feel like an interloper when I do serious drama. It's my own paranoia.

- Johnny Vegas

My well-discussed 'paranoia' urges me to believe that some tiny segment of the NSA's parsing algorithm is finely tuned to my voice.

- John McAfee

America is in a state of somnolence. It's an avoidance of paranoia through ignoring reality.

- John McAfee

I have an advanced degree in procrastination and another one in paranoia.

- Joanne Harris

Paranoia is just another word for ignorance.

- Hunter S. Thompson

I just live my life how I live as a person. I certainly am not, like, a saint or an angel by any means. I'm not anything like that. But I live just how I live. I mean, I have a little paranoia, but that's about it.

- Emma Stone

Being closer to the genesis of this whole period, it captured the importance of the concept of making contact and accurately depicted the paranoia of the time. It's an excellent film.

- Dwight Schultz

The worm of paranoia begins to eat into even the hardest adversary.

- David Ignatius

African Americans have always known that a little bit of paranoia was healthy for us.

- Cynthia McKinney