Success is always less funny than failure.

Trying to solve the mystery is what I enjoy most about writing.

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

The laughing way we make damaged people our playthings, it's so dehumanizing.

We were creating a world where the smartest way to survive is to be bland.

At the end of our conversation she (Martha Stout) turned to address you, the reader. She said if you're beginning to feel worried that you may be a psychopath, if you recognize some of those traits in yourself, if you're feeling a creeping anxiety about it, that means you are not one.

There is no evidence that we've been placed on this planet to be especially happy or especially normal. And in fact our unhappiness and our strangeness, our anxieties and compulsions, those least fashionable aspects of our personalities, are quite often what lead us to do rather interesting things.