There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other is to believe, and to feel an excessive and unhealthy interest in them. They themselves are equally pleased by both errors and hail a materialist or a magician with the same delight.
For some unknown reason, bad-boys draw you in despite the fact that they are jerks.
an intoxication with forbidden knowledge in which the natural things become unimportant.
Autograph-hunting is the most unattractive manifestation of sex-starved curiosity.
People can get obsessed with romance, they can get obsessed with political paranoia, they can get obsessed with horror. It's isn't the fault of the subject matter that creates the obsession, I don't think.
Excessive interest in pathological behavior was itself pathological
If we remained perpetually infatuated, we couldn't eat, sleep or work.
I do write about obsession, but I don't think I have an obsession for writing. I'm not a compulsive writer. I like to watch obsession in other people, watch the way it makes them behave.
I still have a problem with nuns. I follow them around like a kitten with a ball of yarn. After a while, all my characters become very close friends.
My obsession with James Franco borders on the unhealthy.
There was something not quite right about her eagerness, an eerie kind of voyeurism in her need for bad news.
I have this weird obsession with kids and old people falling. Like, funny falls. It is awful, but it's the thing that makes me laugh the most.
With a sinking feeling, I have come to a horrible conclusion: I am addicted to Donald Trump.
