Quotes About Jon Ronson

I couldn't see where the collection of Burger King figurines fit in, but I supposed there was no reason why psychopaths shouldn't have unrelated hobbies.

Their puffed-out cheeks are beetroot-red, making them resemble sweaty, meat-smeared squirrels.

which is why she tried to join the RAF, so she could obtain a socially respectable opportunity to gratify her homicidal urges." "So

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 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.

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.

I should be campaigning for his release in print in a way that appeared crusading but actually wasn't quite effective enough to work. Like planting barely noticeable seeds of doubt into the prose. Subtle. I

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

There is nothing I dislike more in the world than people who care more about ideology than they do about people.

That's an incredibly depressing thought," I said "that if you're in a room and at one end lies madness and at the other end lies sanity it is human nature to veer towards the madness end.

I was sad Jon Ronson, who wrote in the Guardian and has made a TV show for Channel 4, took against me.

But on the extremist side I didn't get any rejections at all. Everyone agreed to talk to me.

I was sad Jon Ronson, who wrote in the Guardian and has made a TV show for Channel 4, took against me.