Sometimes the personalities at the helm of the madness industry are, with their drives and obsessions, as mad in their own way… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
Suddenly, madness was everywhere, and I was determined to learn about the impact it had on the way society evolves. I've always… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
We have to understand how the extremists got the way they are. Without that kind of understanding, we'd never really get to… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
I wasn't in any way a kind of soothsayer or not surprised when Sept. 11 happened. I was absolutely shocked. — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
On social media there's this thing where on many occasions, there's a single proscribed way of acting. Like if somebody dies, everyone… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
I really admire Nick Hornby - for example, the way that he can make ordinary stuff so beautiful! — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
Nothing uniquely bad has happened to me in my personal life, but all the regular little bad things have accumulated to make… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
The way I portrayed the people is accurate. Because they're human beings and we have a kind of wonderful capacity to be… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
I think if somebody is so set in their ways about what they feel about something - and you get this a… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
We were creating a world where the smartest way to survive is to be bland. — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
The laughing way we make damaged people our playthings, it's so dehumanizing. — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
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… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
“I wonder if I’ve got any of the 374 mental disorders,” I thought. I opened the manual again. And I instantly diagnosed myself with… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
Trying to prove you’re not a psychopath is even harder than trying to prove you’re not mentally ill,’ said Tony. — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
“It may very well be that the frotteurist is a helpless victim in the clutches of his obsession, but it’s equally possible that he’s… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
“We are defining the boundaries of normality by tearing apart the people outside of it.” — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
My worryingly paradoxical thought process could be summarized thus: Thank God I don't believe in the secret rulers of the world. Imagine what the… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
Friends are the fruitcake of life - some nutty, some soaked in alcohol, some sweet. — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
“The consensus from the beginning was that only 1 percent of humans had it, but the chaos they caused was so far-reaching it could… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
“That's an incredibly depressing thought," I said "that if you're in a room and at one end lies madness and at the other end… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
The world outside Twitter was great. I read books. I reconnected with people I knew from real life and met them for drinks in… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
“What a brilliant cover story. In a success-obsessed society like this one, what's the best rock to hide something under? It's the rock called… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
Guy Savelli's role in the War on Terror began when half-a-dozen strangers, within days of one another, contacted him via e-mail and telephone in… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
