“Amy's basically exploiting the sociopath's most reliable maxim. The bigger the lie, the more they believe it.” — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
I was often getting hired to play sociopaths and psychopaths and stuff, which is really funny. — Brady Corbet Copy Share Image
No matter what I do with my life, or how successful I am, I will always be a socially awkward penguin inside. — Wil Wheaton Copy Share Image
“I’m a closet sociopath. You can tell by all the skeletons I have hanging up next to my clothes. ” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“There's another word for a charmer, a more accurate description. Sociopath” — Sasha Grey Copy Share Image
I came to accept in myself a long time ago that I really do like writing articulate sociopaths. — Matt Nix Copy Share Image
I think the people running climate change denial campaigns are sociopaths. — Lucy Lawless Copy Share Image
I do think that with any kind of infidelity, on some level - unless you're dealing with a sociopath - there's always… — Jessica Capshaw Copy Share Image
“Because his killing is not a passion of the moment but a compelling urge that has been growing within him sometimes for… — Joel Norris Copy Share Image
“How did he close off that part of his brain that tells someone they've harmed another soul?...Most frighteningly of all, are some… — Dan Skinner Copy Share Image
I really like transgressive characters that have an alternate world view. I've actually written a fair number of kids movies, and I'll… — Matt Nix Copy Share Image
“His demeanor draws people under his spell and once he has them where he wants them, he uses them to his own… — Joshua Grisham Copy Share Image
Creative people like to think in unconventional ways, dislike rules, are easily bored, are independent, like to experiment, and enjoy being their… — Duncan Long Copy Share Image
A sociopath doesn't warm up their environment, doesn't make it cozy. They don't have to; when they're not performing, when they're not… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
“Bet you he’s a smart sociopath, the kind that does well in midlevel management, all fur coat and no knickers—and willing to… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
Usually sociopaths will look down upon us for that very reason - that we're gullible. We're weak. One person told me that… — Martha Stout Copy Share Image
The perfect victim, from the sociopath's point of view, is the person who is smart enough and capable enough to do him… — Martha Stout Copy Share Image
“He had never regarded other men as anything but puppets of a sort, created to fill up an empty world. He divided… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
“Why are the cute ones always such sociopaths?" "Win doesn't seem like so much of a sociopath," I replied without thinking. "Oh,… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
Sociopaths are more complicated psychopaths; the difference between a sociopath and a psychopath is a sociopath is incredibly charming. There are a… — Patrick Heusinger Copy Share Image
“I was still left with having to peel the tape off my arm, and the IV itself had to come out, mustn’t… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
Sociopaths are not inhibited by the notion that it's wrong to be addicted, or wrong to buy illegal drugs. Also, drinking or… — Martha Stout Copy Share Image
You could ask me to teach you.” “Huh?” This night is getting weird in a hurry. “Teach me like you’re teaching a… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
Walter had never liked cats. They'd seemed to him the sociopaths of the pet world, a species domesticated as an evil necessary… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“Be greedy when others are fearful and fearful when others are greedy.' Easier said than done for the vast majority of stock… — M. E. Thomas Copy Share Image
“And sociopaths are noted especially for their shallowness of emotion, the hollow and transient nature of any affectionate feelings they may claim… — Martha Stout Copy Share Image
It is no defense of superstition and pseudoscience to say that it brings solace and comfort to people. . . . If… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“I didn't think past the first step of anything, that was the key. I drank a Coke and didn't worry about how… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“While I don't think sociopaths have any sort of moral urge to do good things, I think they can and do act… — M. E. Thomas Copy Share Image
“I'm an 'intelligent' sociopath. I don't have problems with drugs, I don't commit crimes, I don't take pleasure in hurting people, and… — M. E. Thomas Copy Share Image
“Anyway, it was Oscar who called me to remind me that our nephew, Lydia's son Garnett, was turning eleven years old. Fuck… — Richard J. O'Brien Copy Share Image
