Most goat-related military activity is still highly classified.

Success is always less funny than failure.

We're living in post-nuance online times.

There's definitely evidence that capitalism at its most ruthless rewards psychopathic behavior. When you look at the worst corners of the American health insurance industry or the sub-prime banking market, it really feels like the more psychopathically someone behaves, the more it's rewarded.

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

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.

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