Not everything that happens during the day is an open portending a good or evil development in the future, but everything has meaning to one degree or another, for the world is an ever-weaving tapestry from which no thread can be pulled without destroying the integrity of the cloth.

Small-town boy meets big-time evil.

...guilt is deserved only when the effort to resist evil is never made.

Evil never dies. It just changes faces.

We need to laugh at the irrationality of evil, for in doing so we deny evil's power over us, diminish its influence in the world, and tarnish the allure it has for some people.

Virtue is imaginative. Evil, repetitive.

There's evil in the world, all right. Being aware of it makes you a realist, not a paranoid.

There are no explanations for human evil. Only excuses.