James Rollins Quotes

I think paranoia can be instructive in the right doses. Paranoia is a skill.

I was a mother who worked ridiculously hard to keep catastrophe at bay. I didn't allow my kids to eat hamburgers for fear of E. coli. I didn't allow them to play with rope, string, balloons - anything that might strangle them. They had to bite grapes in half, avoid lollipops, eat only when I could watch them.

When there is nothing to fear is the time to begin fearing everything.

The way to feel safe is never to feel secure.

I've always found paranoia to be a perfectly defensible position.

Plus, I am paranoid by nature. I need to be in control.

I'm scared of everything. I think it's only sensible to be that way.

I'm always looking over my shoulder, needing to stay ahead of the game.

Fear is the foundation of safety.

What puts someone on guard isn't necessarily the fear of being found out.

Only the paranoid survive.

Fear is the mother of foresight.

The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.

To him who is in fear everything rustles.

So in some ways my life, my background has been isolating and I think I'm a bit more scared as a person. I don't walk alone or in the dark. If I go out the driver will wait for me to go into the house.

There is, to be sure, sometimes only a small difference between being alert to possible danger and allowing oneself to become terrified to the point of paralysis by seeming or imagined portents.

When the wart-hog looks up at the sky, it gets its throat slit.

I've been on a state of high alert since high school. I didn't need 9/11 to remind me that we live on a ball of flame.

For a long time, I had this constant feeling that I just wanted to look behind me. The hairs on my neck were standing up all the time, I didn't know where was safe.

At least from my position, I worry about it more when we're rolling because people get comfortable.

I'm always looking over my shoulder.

You would not get out of bed in the morning if you were constantly worrying about the possibility of something happening to you on your way to work. But it is still something to pay attention to, I think.

I don't trust anybody.

I never think I'm safe. I always live in fear I will lose.

Call it not paranoia, but caution.