Bad liars always think they're good at it. (quoting Michael Moynihan)
And then there were terrible things, like Alex’s assertion that the Sandy Hook massacre of 20 children was completely fake … they clearly used actors. Inspired by claims like this, Sandy Hook truthers...
Complicated human behavior was increasingly getting labeled a mental disorder.
What we do, when we fuck up, we don’t lose our job. We lose our vocation.
Vas caminando por la calle, y se produce un accidente. Un coche ha atropellado a un niño. La gente se aglomera alrededor. Te acercas, el niño yace en el suelo y hay sangre por todas partes. Te manchas...
Tony faked mental illness. That’s when you have hallucinations and delusions. Mental illness comes and goes. It can get better with medication. Tony is a psychopath. That doesn’t come and go. It is ho...
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
The idea of Donald Trump and Alex Jones and Roger Stone and Stephen Bannon having power over us — that is terrifying.
The idea of Donald Trump and Alex Jones and Roger Stone and Stephen Bannon having power over us — that is terrifying. THE END
The Antisocial Personality [This type of personality] cannot feel any sense of remorse or shame. They approve only of destructive actions. They appear quite rational. They can be very convincing. —L.
That’s what I Am a Strange Loop is about, said Deborah. It’s about how we spend our lives self-referencing, over and over, in a kind of strange loop.
Racists and conspiracy theorists are taking succor from Trump’s nomination. His fans are frequently caught on camera at his rallies yelling at protesters, Go back to Africa and Allah is a whore and Go...
On the outside, Tony said, not wanting to spend time with your criminally insane neighbors would be a perfectly understandable position. But on the inside it demonstrates you’re withdrawn and aloof an...
Jim returned from his journey in 1979 and wrote a confidential paper for his superiors. The first line read, The U.S. army doesn’t really have any serious alternative than to be wonderful. A disclaime...
I’m like a sociopath when it comes to expensive cars. I feel no emotion.
It’s as if both Midas and also the Queen of Narnia were here, I said, and the Queen of Narnia flew above a particularly fierce zoo and turned everything there to stone and then transported everything...
It was, she said, the way the book had revealed an inherent narcissism in its recipients.
It is an awful lot harder, Tony told me, to convince people you’re sane than it is to convince them you’re crazy. I
His idea was that humans totally lose control of their behavior in a crowd.
He had experienced only kindness and forgiveness. Actually, it wasn't kindness and forgiveness. It was something much better than that. It was nothing. He experienced nothing.