I, like most of my friends, couldn't believe I bought a mountain called Misery Mountain, because it was so appropriate.

Still, it's an interesting technique-leaving one person behind in order to find her or him somewhere else. And in someone else.

I have a grim outlook on the world, and in particular on humanity. Spent years denying it, but I am very misanthropic. And I live alone on a mountain for a reason.

People are disturbed enough by serial killers, but the whole notion of female violence, particularly maternal violence - the idea of mothers who kill - really unnerves people.

Imagine, [Kriezler] said, that you enter a large, somewhat crumbling hall that echoes with the sounds of people mumbling and talking repetitively to themselves. All around you these people fall into prostrate positions, some of them weeping. Where are you? Sara’s answer was immediate: in an asylum. Perhaps, Kreizler answered, but you could also be in a church. In the one place the behavior would be considered mad; in the other, not only sane, but as respectable as any human activity can be.

I, like most of my friends, couldn't believe I bought a mountain called Misery Mountain, because it was so appropriate.

The definition of terrorism is killing civilians with the intent of changing their political affiliation.