The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry

by Jon Ronson

If you want to get away with wielding true, malevolent power, be boring.

The right sort of mad are people who are a bit madder than we fear we’re becoming, and in a recognizable way.

There is no evidence that we’ve been placed on this planet to be especially happy or especially normal. And in fact our unhappiness and our strangeness, our anxieties and compulsions, those least fashionable aspects of our personalities, are quite often what lead us to do rather interesting things.