The Mask Of Sanity

...Dr. Herbert Kleckley [sic], in his groundbreaking work on serial killers, The Mask Of Sanity, discusses this phenomenon, where the career sociopath, vestigially aware of his character, emulates normalcy by overcompensating-becoming a scoutmaster, crisis-line counselor, a Republican fund-raiser...

~Anthony Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential

It seems that the author's name is actually Dr. Hervey M. Cleckley, but let's not let a detail like that interfere with our enjoyment of this quotation from Bourdain's wonderfully funny and hair-raising account of his life as a professional chef. This is an excerpt from the chapter dedicated to "uncontrollable idiot savant and baking genius Adam Real-Last-Name-Unknown."