It is slightly chilling to realize there are rational, functional people up there employed to spot, nurture, and exploit those down here among us who are irrational and can barely cope. If you want to know how stupid you’re perceived to be by the people up there, count the unsolicited junk mail you receive. If you get a lot, you’re perceived to be alluringly stupid.

The snowflake never needs to feel responsible for the avalanche.

Well, I had nightmares when I was doing the Klan story all the time. I had a recurring nightmare of basically being exposed as a Jew inside the Klan compound.

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

Friends are the fruitcake of life - some nutty, some soaked in alcohol, some sweet.

Sometimes the personalities at the helm of the madness industry are, with their drives and obsessions, as mad in their own way as those they study. And that relatively ordinary people are, more and more, defined by their maddest edges.

Capitalism, perhaps at its most remorseless, is a physical manifestation of psychopathy.