Friends Are The Fruitcake Of

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.

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.

As I Glanced At The Phraseology Of The Research Report, Dull And Unfathomable To Outsiders Like Me, I Thought That If You Have The Ambition To Become A Villain, The First Thing You Should Do Is Learn To Be Impenetrable. Don’t Act Like Blofeld—monocled And Ostentatious. We Journalists Love Writing About Eccentrics. We Hate Writing About Impenetrable, Boring People. It Makes Us Look Bad: The Duller The Interviewee, The Duller The Prose. If You Want To Get Away With Wielding True, Malevolent Power, Be Boring.

Sometimes Labeling Is Only Useful, Like With Ocd. Once You're Labeled You Can Be Treated. On Other Occasions Labeling Leads To Tyranny, Like With Childhood Bipolar Disorder In The U.s.

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.