It's not a good idea to define the boundaries of normality by tearing apart people who are outside of it.

I write funny nonfiction adventure books about crazy, serious worlds.

I have thought sometimes that the sanest people, the people who are just very balanced, very happy, are probably lower achieving than other people. My kind of irrationality happens to be fear or anxiety.

Obviously, I like to write stories that are page-turners. But I always try my very, very hardest to be as factually true as possible.

It's not a good idea to define the boundaries of normality by tearing apart people who are outside of it.

Most goat-related military activity is still highly classified.

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.