Anthony Horowitz Quotes

I don't believe in conspiracy theories. I'm just a cold-blooded investigator.

I believe conspiracy theories are part of a larger conspiracy to distract us from the real conspiracy. String theory.

Everything's a conspiracy and everything's not a conspiracy. You could look at this planet and go, "This is all a conspiracy. God made this to test us to see if we'll use the nukes." You can let your mind believe anything.

We have a tendency to think everyone's idiotic and everyone's only doing something idiotic, and the world is controlled by a not-so-secret group of morons. There's great truth in that, I suppose, but then it's also not true.

There's a few conspiracy theories that I believe in, but not too many.

I'm not a conspiracy theorist, I'm a conspiracy analyst.

I do not believe in conspiracy theories.

My first rule: I don't believe anything the government tells me.

Conspiracy theories are an irresistible labor-saving device in the face of complexity.

I have always been fascinated by paranoid people imagining conspiracies. I am fascinated by this in a critical way.

Never ascribe to conspiracy that which can be attributed to ignorance.

It's impossible to write about the Kennedy assassination and its aftermath without taking note of twenty-five years of paranoia which has collected around that event.

Everyone loves a conspiracy.

Since the Drive-Bys are involved, I'm sorry, folks, I just never, ever do I accept anything, I don't care what. If it's football, if it's the space program, if it's anything, I automatically do not believe it.

Just because we don't understand why they'd cover up something doesn't mean they aren't," Bobby said, and we both turned to look at him. "Now you just sound paranoid," I said. "Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not after you," Bobby said with an expression so serious that I couldn't help but laugh.

If I turn up suicided in the morning, it was murder.

You simply cannot invent any conspiracy theory so ridiculous and obviously satirical that some people somewhere don't already believe it.

While yes we can both agree the sudden recovery of this footage smells not a little, and that we appear to be bits of tinfoil-on-string to some malevolent government kitten, yes yes yes but, Borlu, however they've come by this evidence, this is the correct decision.

Secrecy is a vacuum and nothing fills a vacuum like paranoid speculation.

William James used to preach the "will-to-believe." For my part, I should wish to preach the "will-to-doubt." None of our beliefs are quite true; all at least have a penumbra of vagueness and error. What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.

Plots are for dead people.

Cam was already on his feet, waiting for me. I arched my brow at him. "Following me?" "Like a true serial killer," he replied.

It is remarkable how long men will believe in the bottomlessness of a pond without taking the trouble to sound it.

I am all in favor of the skeptical mind. Do not believe anything unless you have experienced it. Do not believe anything - go on questioning, however long it takes.

I think regular school is harder than my job. You have to deal with kids picking on you, and you wanting to look good and all this stuff. It was way too much pressure.