Controlling others—winning—is more compelling than anything (or anyone) else.

I am sure that if the devil existed, he would want us to feel very sorry for him.

Sociopaths love power. They love winning. If you take loving kindness out of the human brain, there's not much left except the will to win.

The most reliable sign, the most universal behavior of unscrupulous people is not directed, as one might imagine, at our fearfulness. It is, perversely, an appeal to our sympathy.

If courage is acting according to one's conscience despite pain or fear, then strength is the ability to keep conscience awake and in force despite the demands of authorities to do otherwise.

Sociopaths are just like everybody else in that some of them are really brilliant, some of them are really stupid, and most of them are somewhere in between.

I saw a werewolf drinking a pina colada at Trader Vic's. His hair was perfect.

One way or another, a life without conscience is a failed life.

Sociopathy is the inability to process emotional experience, including love and caring, except when such experience can be calculated as a coldly intellectual task.

The ultimate manipulation is to kill someone, and sociopathy is murderous in a psychological sense - there's a kind of soul-murder going on.

Most of who we are is our deepest emotions, and someone who cannot feel those emotions in a positive way is never going to understand much about his fellow human beings.

Elisha, ' he said, 'no matter what happens to me, where I go, what folks say about me, no matter what anybody says, you remember - please remember - I was saved. I was there.

No one could leave the group by his or her own volition and put the group at risk of having its secrets revealed.

How can there ever be any serious expectation of living in paradise, if one cannot behave appropriately, or be trusted to respect and honour all life?

Terror acts powerfully upon the body, through the medium of the mind, and should be employed in the cure of madness.

Fun is the most important. If you do stuff for money, it never works out.

Chess is not for the timid.

I am a huge Leonard Cohen person.

India has been at the greatest loss because governments were run only for elections.

I made my Broadway debut in the revival of Hair and followed it up with the bus and truck tour of Grease.

Drink wine, and live here blitheful while ye may; The morrow's life too late is; live to-day.