From the time we're born, our brothers and sisters are our collaborators and coconspirators, our role models and our cautionary tales.

- Jeffrey Kluger

Narcissism is actually a clever guise adopted to mask its exact opposite, which is a deep well of self-loathing, a well of low self-esteem, rather th…

- Jeffrey Kluger

Certainly, people can get along without siblings. Single children do, and there are people who have irreparably estranged relationships with their si…

- Jeffrey Kluger

Vaccines save lives; fear endangers them. It's a simple message parents need to keep hearing.

- Jeffrey Kluger

There's a sort of sibling moratorium when you're establishing yourself as an adult. So much of your energy has to be focused on other things like wor…

- Jeffrey Kluger

Narcissism falls along the axis of what psychologists call personality disorders, one of a group that includes antisocial, dependent, histrionic, avo…

- Jeffrey Kluger

It's a deep and all but certain truth about narcissistic personalities that to meet them is to love them, but to know them well is to find them unbea…

- Jeffrey Kluger

Your parents leave you too soon and your kids and spouse come along late, but your siblings know you when you are in your most inchoate form.

- Jeffrey Kluger

A mere ape in our world may be a scholar in its own, and the low life of any beast may be a source of deep satisfaction for the beast itself.

- Jeffrey Kluger