Vincent Bugliosi Quotes

Who isn't fascinated by evil?

Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human.

Hell lies at the bottom of the human heart.

As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow.

The most wicked thing that the dark side of human nature has ever come up with.

I prefer to be a villainess. There's something a bit more delicious about their wickedness.

People are fascinated by evil because it's mysterious and it doesn't seem to have a rational behind it.

I like showing the gritty truthful dark side of humanity.

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

I don't believe in evil, I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the plagues and the blights and the ants and the maggots.

Every day in the year there comes some malice into the world, and where it comes from is no good place.

This devil loves mankind because men are going to always make the choice that will send him into ascendancy. He's been winning the game for a long time.

Evil changes everybody!

I defy anyone to watch interviews with Ted Bundy and not be taken by him. He was very handsome and charming and extremely intelligent and, you know, that can exist.

There is no limit to suffering human beings have been willing to inflict on others, no matter how innocent, no matter how young, and no matter how old. This fact must lead all reasonable human beings, that is, all human beings who take evidence seriously, to draw only one possible conclusion: Human nature is not basically good.

I'm interested in the dark side of man. I'm interested in taboos, and murder is the greatest taboo. Characters are fascinating in their extremity, not in their happiness.

I do believe quite strongly in 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.

We are all born marked for evil.

I remember playing John Wayne Gacy, serial killer, very sick, neurotic, screwed-up guy. You know what? There's a part of me there, too, and you explore that.

To reasoned people, almost everything is understandable, but evil is forever incomprehensible.

Everybody knows someone like that: wonderful, attractive people full of passion and ideals. You envy them, but you know there's a dark side, which is brutal and cruel and violent. That dark side informs what's wonderful about them, and the passion and rage inform the darkness; they're inseparable.

It feels really good to be the bad guy, and 'The Darkness' is as bad as it gets.

Ladies and gentlemen, there is evil in this world.

Humanity's always been weird at heart. Look at how societies form, rituals, practices, even rock n' roll. Humanity really is dark and twisted.