cold empathy: in reasoning and rational thought.

interpersonal difficulties

Who in the rainbow can draw the line where the violet tint ends and the orange tint begins? Distinctly we see the difference of the colours, but where exactly does the one first blendingly enter into the other? So with sanity and insanity. – Herman Melville

Emotion is entropy, and seriously bad for business. I’ve hunted it down to extinction over the years.’

refrigerated heart of a ruthless, glacial predator.

Rain Man and A Beautiful Mind, when it comes to autism and schizophrenia. In his book The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat

It was conviction that made them tick.

Their brains, quite literally, are less “switched on” than the rest of ours.’

‘The great thing about insensitivity,’ explains Moulton, ‘is that it lets you sleep when others can’t.’