John Steinbeck Quotes

Evil is relative - and what I mean by that is that our villains are as complex, as deep and as compelling as any of our heroes. Every antagonist in the DC Universe has a unique darkness, desire and drive. And the reason for being of 'Forever Evil' is to explore that darkness.

We've all got darkness inside us. And I've got quite a lot of darkness.

I feel like the so-called bad guys are never totally bad. I guess it's the closest thing I can do to reality: people act nice but nobody really is nice. We all have to balance that with something dark.

All of us have darkness inside us, and at times it possesses and seduces us in ways we never thought possible.

Everyone has kind of done something that is bad and everyone has shades of good, but everyone has that darkness. There's always that little twinkle of darkness in everyone's eye.

I'm not...' Angharad began, but then she thought. Not what? Not a bad person? Perhaps. But had she never known anger? Never held unkind thoughts? The stranger's observation was valid. No one was innocent of darkness.

Hell lies at the bottom of the human heart.

Nobody's all good or bad, and nobody's all light or dark. Every human being has so many different aspects and facets to them. And there can be something noble and something really dark and dangerous going on in a person all at the same time.

Basically, we are a whole world of people desperately trying to figure out what is the dark side of our natures and how much can we explore without becoming something else.

Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.

We may not all break the Ten Commandments, but we are certainly all capable of it. Within us lurks the breaker of all laws, ready to spring out at the first real opportunity.

I've always had a fascination with vampires. It's not that I'm exactly fascinated with the dark side. It's the human struggle with it. How we deal with those two aspects of who we are. We all have those elements.

I think we all have the capacity of evil in us.

I think we all have light and dark inside us.

One of the things I constantly think about as a writer is the way in which people are full of contradictions - there's all this contradictory information inside a human personality.

If we are completely honest with ourselves, everyone has a dark side to their personalities.

I think that there's a hidden darkness in all of us!

I do believe as human beings we are a great mass of contradictions.

I never see my bad guys as simply bad. They want pretty much the same thing that you and I want: they want to be happy.

The thing is, I never see my characters as psychopaths. I see them as really crippled victims who just happen to do bad things. And I never see them as bad guys; I see them as darker characters. I never see anything as good or bad; it's more light or dark, and the in-between is the grey.

Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty.

I think that there's a little bit of bad in all of us.

Everybody has a dark side. It's just we are very in touch with it.

Kolaigaran' is not a typical hero-villain subject. We explored the other side of human nature, which is grey.

Oh, I am an angel, though sometimes I wish I was more of a devil.