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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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

The mark of a legitimate revolution - the scientific, for example - was that it didn't brag about its revolutionariness but simply occurred.

He was a sleaze, a nobody, a former graduate student of English studies.

There was a kind of liberation in jettisoning all thought of being a good person.

According to Scripture, earthly life was but a moment, but the moment seemed spacious when he was with her.

It was awkward to be called dear by a person you felt like calling insufferable bitch.

It was strange that self-pity wasn't on the list of deadly sins; none was deadlier.

She'd been drinking jug wine steadily for four hours.

Clem couldn't stand to be in the same room with him. He was giving up his student deferment to show his father what a strong man did.

All of them giggled and swaggered in that happy ascendancy, repellent in any land, of teens on their turf.

The love that was a granite impediment at the center of her life was also an unshakable foundation;