M.E. Thomas

“People like to hear words like pleasure and decadent. They think of Roman orgies or chocolate”

— M.E. Thomas

“It isn't enough that the bad guy is prevented from doing his bad deeds; he must suffer as much as possible. It…

— M.E. Thomas

“While my self-image was that of a pagan god, hers was of an avenging angel”

— M.E. Thomas

“Ruining people. I love the way the phrase rolls around on my tongue and inside my mouth. Ruining people is delicious. We're…

— M.E. Thomas

“I do not expect things to go right in the world. I don’t even believe in right. I believe that everything just…

— M.E. Thomas

“Outwardly I was all confidence and openness; inwardly I was spiteful and lonely and unaware of how to relate to the world.…

— M.E. Thomas

“One nurse thought I was "brave." I think she was talking about my steely-eyed, grin-and-bear-it kind of attitude. There were no tears,…

— M.E. Thomas

“We lawyers are all prestige whores”

— M.E. Thomas

“I'm not unhappy, for the most part, although I do think there is a certain emptiness and meaningless that I feel, sort…

— M.E. Thomas

“It was too late, though: I was already too smart for the therapist. Or maybe I was never amenable to therapy. Either…

— M.E. Thomas

“(Sociopaths are highly immune to depression, and this ability to tell ourselves wonderful stories about how attractive, smart, and wily we are,…

— M.E. Thomas

“Many sociopaths use the shortcut of “anything goes,” or “I am only in it for me.” These sociopaths have decided that the…

— M.E. Thomas

“I often wish I could just passively watch people without being expected to participate myself, like television.”

— M.E. Thomas

“When you grow up as a girl, it is like there are faint chalk lines traced approximately three inches around your entire…

— M.E. Thomas

“Asked to choose between having power and giving up power to a “trusted” entity, people often prefer to give it up rather…

— M.E. Thomas

“I believe that a lot of the sociopath’s traits such as charm, manipulation, lying, promiscuity, chameleonism, mask wearing, and lack of empathy…

— M.E. Thomas

“Dr. Robert Hare, one of the foremost researchers on sociopathy, believes that a sociopath is four times more likely to be at…

— M.E. Thomas

“When you’re bad to people, they’re bad back to you.”

— M.E. Thomas

“The best predictor of whether someone will like you is whether they feel you like them.”

— M.E. Thomas

“Joel Bakan, author of The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power argues that if corporations have 'person hood' under the…

— M.E. Thomas

“I once read an old statue in law school that had two notable exceptions to criminal homosexuality: same-sex relations in prison and…

— M.E. Thomas

“The threat of punishment at home or school only served as a challenge to figure out how to circumvent the consequences when…

— M.E. Thomas

“sociopaths are perfect for all the dirty work that no one else has the stomach for, such as firing and downsizing.”

— M.E. Thomas