I'm terrified of bugs and I travel with sprays lotions potions the lot. I have to check the room before I go to sleep and if I come across a bug and fail to remove it I have to sleep in a separate room as I'm paranoid that I'll be taken advantage of as I sleep.
You can never be comfortable with your success you've got to be paranoid you're going to lose it.
Methamphetamine is a hideous drug. Meth makes a person become paranoid violent and aggressive - making them a serious threat to society and law enforcement. And maybe more importantly meth users are a threat to their own children and families.
I've often entertained paranoid suspicions about my fridge and what it's been doing to my poetry when I'm not looking but I never even considered that my fan was thinking about me.
My mom was paranoid about my safety.
I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
My own nature hovers between neurotic and paranoid. I've developed the habit of mentally listing things that make me optimistic about the future. I do it every day.
I realised how paranoid and guarded and not trusting - walled-in - I had become. Not consciously so but just this armour that I kind of have protective armour. It's not for my friends or family but for being.outside in the world always on guard.
Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.
To keep the record straight it wasn't always John and Yoko. We've all accused one another of various business things we tend to be pretty paranoid by now as you can imagine. There's a lot of money involved.