A Quote by Edward Abbey

Anyone not paranoid in this world must be crazy. . . . Speaking of paranoia, it's true that I do not know exactly who my enemies are. But that of course is exactly why I'm paranoid.

Edward Abbey

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Edward Abbey
American - Author
January 29, 1927 - March 14, 1989

Anyone in the United States today who isn't paranoid must be crazy.

Robert Anton Wilson

I don't consider myself paranoid at all. I think I see things exactly as they are.

Don DeLillo

I know I'm paranoid, but am I paranoid enough?

David Foster Wallace

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

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

Satoshi Kanazawa

Paranoid? Probably. But just because you're paranoid doesn't mean there isn't an invisible demon about to eat your face.

Jim Butcher

Even a paranoid can have enemies.

Henry Kissinger

Drugs seem to turn people into paranoid bores. Why would anyone want to go there?

Jasmine Guinness

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

Jon Ronson

If you carry a gun, people will call you paranoid. That's ridiculous. If I have a gun, what in the hell do I have to be paranoid about?

Clint Smith

Paranoia imposes its own vision on the external world; it differs from other kinds of visionary experience in that the paranoid wants others to share his view—even insists on it. Paranoia is very like poetic creativity. This accounts for my fascination with certain people in whom this state of mind was evident: ‘characters’ met by chance, whose words and gestures would haunt me for years until, finally, in a poem I was able to dispel them.

Louis Simpson

Even paranoid people have enemies.

Henry A. Kissinger

Anyone who is willing to work and is serious about it will certainly find a job. Only you must not go to the man who tells you this, for he has no job to offer and doesn't know anyone who knows of a vacancy. This is exactly the reason why he gives you such generous advice, out of brotherly love, and to demonstrate how little he knows the world.