I'm a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

I'm a kind of a paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

Then I could turn around and justify that, by saying that it isn’t really paranoia if there really are people out to get you.

Yes, I'm paranoid — but am I paranoid enough?

In my paranoid world every storekeeper thinks I’m stealing, every man thinks I’m a prostitute or a lesbian, every woman thinks I’m a lesbian or arrogant, and every child and animal sees the real me and it is evil.

To be paranoid was to inflate one’s importance, to see oneself as worthy of persecution

Please don't continually say I'm paranoid.
Why?
It makes me paranoid.

I think you’re getting paranoid. Let me correct that: you've been paranoid your whole life, and it’s starting to show again.

A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.

Well, what that means is that it doesn't happen very often. Now it's happened to one small group of people—us—twice in a short time. That would seem to indicate that," he ticked a finger, "something's seriously out of whack in general, or," he ticked the next finger, "someone's out to get us in particular; which I feel is quite unlikely. At times in my paranoid past I would have assumed that the Universe is teaming up to get me, but now I'm more objective and I don't believe that. I think it, but I don't believe it.

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.

When people are suspicious with you, you start being suspicious with them.

I'm suspicious about people interested in saving other people's souls.

And you know what, I cannot fathom the reason for something being done in a particular way, especially when its been done for others but its not being done for others, I start getting suspicious, I have grown to the age where I have seen it all, and therefore I easily become suspicious.