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“I think that most of us feel like something is missing from our lives. And I wondered then if Knight's journey was to seek it. But life isn't about searching endlessly to find what's missing. It's about learning to live with the missing parts.”
― Michael Finkel, The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit

“The more you realize, the more you realize there is nothing to realize,” she said. “The idea that there’s somewhere we have got to get to, and something we have to attain, is our basic delusion.”
― Michael Finkel, The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit

“If you like solitude, you're never alone.”
― Michael Finkel, The Stranger in the Woods

“Behavior reflects personality.”
― John E. Douglas, Mind Hunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit

“Behavior reflects personality. The best indicator of future violence is past violence. To understand the "artist," you must study his "art." The crime must be evaluated in its totality. There is no substitute for experience, and if you want to understand the criminal mind, you must go directly to the source and learn to decipher what he tells you. And, above all: Why + How = Who.”
― John E. Douglas, Mind Hunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit

“Don’t make the mistake of confusing a psychopath with a psychotic.”
― John E. Douglas, Mind Hunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit

“The more I questioned these guys, the more I came to understand that the successful criminals were good profilers.”
― John E. Douglas, Mind Hunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit