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.

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.

One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds.

HELENA. What a fine day! Not too hot. [A pause.]VOITSKI. A fine day to hang oneself.

Did you recently turn into a jerk or have you been one since birth?

Literacy: Blessing? Or curse?

We have the alternative. "Do I want to be on the subway looking at these people, or do I want to be in my phone looking at my people?"

A Fed loan to Lehman Brothers would not have prevented a bankruptcy.

A new survey out says 64 percent of Americans own a smartphone. Which is interesting because in a related survey, 100 percent of smart phones say they own an American.

The greatest surprise of human evolution may be that the highest form of selfishness is selflessness.

I can't believe that I would keep, keep you from flying And I would cry a thousand more if that's what it takes to sail you home.

When you grow up in a place (whether as a child or an adult) you squeeze everything out of it. You need so much when you're young.