“If there is something comforting - religious, if you want - about paranoia, there is still also anti-paranoia, where nothing is connected to anything, a condition not many of us can bear for long.”

Source: Bitter Angels (2009), Chapter 25 (p. 318)

Source: 2002, Slander : Liberal Lies About the American Right (2002), p. 254.
Context: Where there is a vacuum of ideas, paranoia slips in. Much of the left's hate speech bears greater similarity to a psychological disorder than to standard political discourse. The hatred is blinding, producing logical contradictions that would be impossible to sustain were it not for the central element faith plays in the left's new religion. The basic tenet of their faith is this: Maybe they were wrong about their facts and policies, but they are good and conservatives are evil. You almost want to give it to them. It's all they have left.

Source: A Confederacy of Dunces

Variant: Paranoia's the garlic in life's kitchen
Source: Bleeding Edge (2013), p. 11

Source: Filth

Article, Evening Standard, Tue 25 June 2013, pp.1-4

Source: A Scanner Darkly

Source: Flesh and Fire (2009), p. 96

Source: From the Notebooks of Dr. Brain (2007), Chapter 1 “Operation: Cooperation!” (p. 31)