Jim Butcher Quotes

My wife would say I'm more Hyde than Jekyll!

Obviously I have more in common with Jekyll, but there's something about Hyde.

The bad guys I play don't want to be bad. It's the struggle between the part of them that's an animal and the part that's the intellect that's interesting.

There's a Mr. Hyde for every happy Jekyll face, a dark face on the other side of the mirror. The brain behind that face never heard of razors, prayers, or the logic of the universe. You turn the mirror sideways and see your face reflected with a sinister left-hand twist, half mad and half sane.

Darkness dwells within even the best of us. In the worst of us, darkness not only dwells but reigns.

I think I have a pattern of nice and lovely and then dark and twisted.

What 'Twilight Zone' did was show we all have a great capacity for good and evil.

We both can be the most beautiful and benevolent creatures on the planet, but then there's another side that can be as harsh and as ugly as the darkest thing you could imagine seeing.

The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.

Beauty and the devil are the same thing.

I've always been an angel. Sometimes I transform into a witch only because the filmmaking demands it.

I think I appear very innocent and soft, but I'm actually very dark and edgy. It's a weird dichotomy.

If this isn’t good versus evil, what is?

Like most people, I have a dark side, but because of roles I played early on, people tend not to guess that.

Before we ever had a script or anything, I was attracted to the idea of playing a character that housed within himself two opposing traits.

I am my favourite villain!

You have more real truth to draw from if you are playing evil. We see so much of it around us in our culture, and we also have so much of it in our nature, which we are always warring against, as it were.

There is good and evil in each of us, and you can easily be led to the dark side.

Of the good in you I can speak, but not of the evil. For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst? Verily when good is hungry it seeks food even in dark caves, and when it thirsts it drinks even of dead waters.

You are at the same time arrogant and self-loathing. You are a puzzle. But the ancient truth remains: as the light grows dimmer, things begin to become harder to see. I came to love you in time, but I feared the dark side as well. I still do. You have tremendous potential, potential for joy or hate, light or dark, life or death. But in the end, you choose. What a gift, what a joy to witness.

You have an evil twin who is always with you. He is called your ego.

He has a spirit-a soul- and therfore a choice. I will belive that Aurox will chose Light, even if Darkness resides within him. None of us is entirely good. Or evil.

For we have thought the longer thoughts And gone the shorter way. And we have danced to devils' tunes, Shivering home to pray; To serve one master in the night, Another in the day.

We have only one story. All novels, all poetry, are built on the neverending contest in ourselves of good and evil. And it occurs to me that evil must constantly respawn, while good, while virtue, is immortal. Vice has always a new fresh young face, while virtue is venerable as nothing else in the world is.

The battle of good and evil reduced to a fat woman standing in front of a chocolate shop, saying, Will I? Won’t I? in pitiful indecision.