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.

We're living in post-nuance online times.

My paranoia never ends, but I haven't been paranoid about being spied on my shadowy forces for some time now.

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.

Corporate and political and religious psychopaths ruin economies. They ruin societies.

Oh, you know what bloggers are like, they write and write and write. I don't know why, because they're not being paid.

I wondered if sometimes the difference between a psychopath in Broadmoor and a psychopath on Wall Street was the luck of being born into a stable, rich family.