Patricia Briggs Quotes

A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?

Perhaps I'm absolutely bonkers and don't know it. Perhaps I'm psychotically mental.

I may have a slightly paranoid nature, a fear of losing control of my life.

I know what paranoia is like. I know what it is like to worry about what people are saying about you and become obsessed with what people are saying about you.

I've always wondered if, at some point, everything will snap, and it'll be like 'Alice in Wonderland,' where the delightfully mad people turn into sinister mad people.

You see all of us go through the same doubts. We are afraid of being mad; unfortunately for us, of course, all of us are already mad.

You don't think I'm crazy?" I asked hesitantly. "Like I'm one to judge another persons sanity.

Maybe the life I think I'm living is a paranoid delusion...Sanity is a valuable possession; I hoard it the way people once hoarded money. I save it, so I will have enough, when the time comes.

We all question our sanity. Everyone has had an experience of loss of control of something.

My nature is to worry about everything too much.

I hope people don't think I'm crazy, because I'm not.

Once you start worrying, it's hard to stop.

If you don't feel right, you're going to try to tweak every pitch, every little thing, things that probably don't even need tweaking.

I like keeping people guessing. I like to have fun with them wondering if I'm sane or not.

I stress, worry, get nervous and I start to over-think about a lot of things, but I think a little bit of doubt and nervousness always keeps me on my feet.

Once you start worrying about things, you get down about yourself, whatever it may be.

You can't listen to the whole world tell you you're crazy, without wondering, 'Am I crazy?'

'Lady Macbeth' is a great opportunity for me to prove that maybe the outcome of 'The Falling' was not necessarily a fluke.

Anxiety and doubt are among my biggest struggles as a writer.

Am I, or the others crazy?

And if you're lucky enough to survive going crazy and get back to the point where you can pass for normal, it builds a question into the rest of your life. You have to forgive people for wondering, 'How all right can he be?'

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

Worrying is the interest paid on a debt you may not owe.

I have spent most of my life worrying about things that have never happened.

I am wired on some deep level to seek out something to be worried and obsess about.