Even famous people - are most concerned of all with what people who are close to them think. And the sociopath is generally not concerned with that at all.

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.

The failure of women to have reached positions of leadership has been due in large part to social and professional discrimination.

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.

You're all brainwashed into believing you're ugly.

Judge your success by what you had to give up to get it.

I have a lot of those 'Forrest Gump,' I-was-there moments.

I flee who chases me and chase who flees me.

Data coming out our ears but we lack narrative.

No story comes from nowhere; new stories are born from old.

I just don't know how to deal with so many people giving me that much affection. I never had that in my life.