Jon Ronson Quotes

Jon Ronson — Welsh Journalist born on May 10, 1967,

Jon Ronson is a Welsh journalist, author, documentary filmmaker and radio presenter whose works include the best-selling The Men Who Stare at Goats. He has been described as a gonzo journalist, becoming something of a faux-naïf character himself in his stories... (wikipedia)

But when I was doing the KKK I had constant nightmares of being exposed as a Jew and lynched by the Klan.

There's definitely evidence that capitalism at its most ruthless rewards psychopathic behavior. When you look at the worst corners of the American health insurance industry or the sub-prime banking market, it really feels like the more psychopathically someone behaves, the more it's rewarded.

My paranoia never ends, but I haven't been paranoid about being spied on my shadowy forces for some time now.

I think if somebody is so set in their ways about what they feel about something - and you get this a lot in academia, of course, and also different sorts of journalism too - you're going to sweep under the carpet the facts that don't suit your thesis. And I think that happens quite a lot in the courtroom, for instance.

But on the extremist side I didn't get any rejections at all. Everyone agreed to talk to me.

Jon Ronson Quotes

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