Margaret Weis Quotes

I'm not a god - I do bad things.

All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but failing to rid themselves of conscience, a sense of sin, the whole bag of tricks.

All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.

A bad act done will fester and create in its own way. It's not only goodness that creates. Bad things create. They have their own yeast.

If I were doing something that the Bible condemns, I have two choices. I can straighten up my act, or I can somehow distort and twist and change the meaning of the Bible.

We may not commit a lesser Sin under pretence to avoid a greater, but we may, nay we ought to endure the greatest Pain and Grief rather than commit the least Sin.

The devil made me do it.

If I believed in Hell, I'd definitely be going there.

The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.

Woe to those who die in mortal sin!

Now, men think, with regard to their conduct, that, if they were to lift themselves up gigantically and commit some crashing sin, they should never be able to hold up their heads; but they will harbor in their souls little sins, which are piercing and eating them away to inevitable ruin.

A sin takes on a new and real terror when there seems a chance that it is going to be found out.

Temptation can be tormenting, but remember: The torment of temptation to sin is nothing to compare with the torment of the consequences of sin. Remorse and regret cannot compensate for sin....though sins can be forgiven immediately - the consequences can last a lifetime

There is more magic in sin if it is not committed.

That whole Deep End experience of finding yourself with the dead body: you know you didn't kill it, but you know if you're found with it, you're gonna be done for it, so you have to get rid of it. And that's a really important nub of Young Adam — Joe knows for absolute certain that if someone comes around the corner, that's it. Nobody's ever going to believe what happened. So that has nothing to do with identity or sexuality, but that is a link. I'm just fascinated by it.

After such knowledge, what forgiveness?

You have reason to wonder that you are not already in hell.

We do the best we can," she said softly, looking inward. "And punish ourselves for it. I've tried to make my choices with the idea that I've made those choices for the greatest good. Sometimes someone suffers in the process, but I made the decision for the right reason. That should count for something, shouldn't it?

We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. But mere time does nothing either to the fact or to the guilt of a sin.

Sin always seems 'good, and pleasant, and desirable,' at the time of commission.

It is with a pious fraud as with a bad action; it begets a calamitous necessity of going on.

The wages of sin is alimony.

And so, irritants, it is with this that I leave you. You are spared so that you can think of what it really is to live in a world that engenders a pain for which there is no comfort. Here is your product! You have the rest of your lives to think of this. And I suggest you think quickly, for a long life is never a guarantee.

Many without punishment, none without sin.

Sara could commit adultery at one end and weep for her sins at the other, and enjoy both operations at once.