As with all other aspects of the narrative art, you will improve with practice, but practice will never make you perfect. Why should it? What fun would that be?
Perfect paranoia is perfect awareness.
Oh Christ, he groaned to himself, if this is the stuff adults have to think about I never want to grow up
This is a short book because most books about writing are filled with bullshit.
You're dead, George. You just don't have the sense to lie down.
Like some dogs: kick them once and they never trust you again, no matter how nice you are to them.