Why would I lie?” – Andy “It could be pathological.” –…

And I, love, am a pathological liar,

— Sylvia Plath

I have a pathological fear of confrontation. I'm working on that.

— Joss Whedon

The pathological degree to which former Vice President Dick Cheney operated in secrecy led to government abuses that we'll probably spend years learning about.

— Timothy Noah

Excessive interest in pathological behavior was itself pathological

— Arthur C. Clarke

I have never said authoritarians are pathological

— Bob Altemeyer

The mistrust of government that blossomed in the late '60s has become a chronic and in some ways pathological condition.

— Kurt Andersen

When I was 13, I had these episodes where I could just see the world without any words attached to it, without any associations.…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

I want to be very careful about judging and how much to generalize about the use of media being pathological. For some people, it's…

— Howard Rheingold

I am incapable of speaking of myself and of my life and the states of my soul, I am discreet to an almost pathological…

— Milan Kundera

Psychoanalysis is for hysterical pathological cases, not for silly rich American women who should be learning how to darn socks.

— Sigmund Freud

A book is still atemporal. It is you, in silence, hearing voices in your head, unfolding at a time that has nothing to do…

— Richard Powers

Conservatism is less a set of ideas than it is a pathological distemper, a militant anger over the fact that the universe is not…

— Bill Moyers

Even my pathological love of Japan and its beauties, glories and eccentricities is sorely tested by 'The Grudge 2,' from Takashi Shimizu, a movie…

— Stephen Hunter

If you have slightly pathological interest in all the components of places, it forces you to engage with them in a way that perhaps…

— Jonathan Meades

I believe people are fundamentally good and want to find things that make life better for themselves. There are social dynamics for people that…

— Tim O'Reilly