At First, I Did Stories On People

Feeling No Remorse Must Be A Blessing When All You Have Are Your Memories

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.

The Way I Portrayed The People Is Accurate. Because They're Human Beings And We Have A Kind Of Wonderful Capacity To Be Absurd And Ridiculous.

I Have Thought Sometimes That The Sanest People, The People Who Are Just Very Balanced, Very Happy, Are Probably Lower Achieving Than Other People. My Kind Of Irrationality Happens To Be Fear Or Anxiety.

Suddenly, Madness Was Everywhere, And I Was Determined To Learn About The Impact It Had On The Way Society Evolves. I've Always Believed Society To Be A Fundamentally Rational Thing, But What If It Isn't? What If It Is Built On Insanity?