Friends Are The Fruitcake Of Life -

We Were Creating A World Where The Smartest Way To Survive Is To Be Bland.

Bedlam: An Institution With A History So Fearsome It Gave Its Name To A Synonym For Chaos And Pandemonium.

Obviously, I Like To Write Stories That Are Page-turners. But I Always Try My Very, Very Hardest To Be As Factually True As Possible.

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.

Sometimes Labeling Is Only Useful, Like With Ocd. Once You're Labeled You Can Be Treated. On Other Occasions Labeling Leads To Tyranny, Like With Childhood Bipolar Disorder In The U.s.