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.

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

Nothing uniquely bad has happened to me in my personal life, but all the regular little bad things have accumulated to make me a neurotic person. And these adventures are my way of trying to make sense of that.

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

It is an awful lot harder, Tony told me, to convince people you're sane than it is to convince them you're crazy.

Trying to prove you’re not a psychopath is even harder than trying to prove you’re not mentally ill,’ said Tony.

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