A Quote by Dean Koontz

Maybe I'm needy, neurotic, paranoid. Under the circumstances, of course, if I weren't needy, neurotic, and paranoid, I'd obviously be psychotic.

Dean Koontz

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Dean Koontz
American - Author
Born: July 9, 1945

And I know I'm paranoid and neurotic, I've made a career out of it.

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Edward Abbey

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Mark Rydell

The neurotic has problems; the psychotic has solutions.

Thomas Szasz

Humans are evolutionarily designed to be paranoid, and they believe in God because they are paranoid.

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I think a neurotic learns from their mistakes. A psychotic does not.

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