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Others took exception to being forced to wear little-girl-type dresses (a psychopath-devised punishment for noncooperation in the program).

I told a journalist that Dave seemed quite psychopathic (I didn't know a thing about psychopaths but I assumed that that was the sort of thing they might do).

society was, they claimed, an expression of that particular sort of madness.

society to be a fundamentally rational thing

It was, she said, the way the book had revealed an inherent narcissism in its recipients.

the world that psychiatrists are wicked and must be stopped.

They wrote in their reports that it proved him to be "cunning" and "manipulative" and also that he was suffering from "cognitive distortion" because he didn't believe he was mad.     Tony

Stone's beliefs, I later discovered, were just as crazy as Alex's. He

I suppose he was being rewarded so richly because his messages were inspirational. My talks tend to be more disincentivizing, which, I have noticed, pays less.

partners in a lobbying firm with a client list that included a great many murderous dictators. Like

after his lawyer argued that given the passage of time, he wouldn't have a fair hearing. He became a pariah in the offender-profiling world. Now

Is Obama satanic?" he asked me. I was grateful for the conversation starter — I consider anything that staves off social awkwardness to be a blessing — but I couldn't lie.

Faking mental illness to get out of a prison sentence, he explained, is exactly the kind of deceitful and manipulative act you'd expect of a psychopath.

brilliant and audacious as ever — a beat poet of paranoia. He

And a surfeit of checklists, coupled with unscrupulous drug reps, is, Gary said, a dreadful combination.     There

As an adolescent, Vonnegut made my life bearable.

It's great having Bruce Springsteen on my show. We have so much in common! We're both from New Jersey, just from different neighborhoods. Sort of like how Martin Luther King and Margaret Mitchell both came from Atlanta. But from different neighborhoods.

A Trump was a demon who sometimes appeared to us in quasi-human form in order to fire us from jobs we never wanted in the first place.

Government money only pays for the liberties the government thinks you should have, and therefore it can determine how you exercise them. That turns liberties into privileges dispensed at the whim of the state.

Tom Friedman says China is so awesome they make kosher pigs.

Yes. We have rooms. But closed one more week. Come back one week.

The questions are the danger. Leave them alone and they sleep. Ask them, awake them, and more than you know will begin to rise.

Half an hour later, as I was deeply immersed in the story of The Man of the Hill, that curious, lengthy digression which seems to have nothing to do with the main narrative but is in fact its cornerstone..

Like Hilary (who never watched her own television programmes), Dorothy had no intention of ever consuming the products which she was happy to foist upon an uncomplaining public.