Douglas Preston Quotes

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.

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

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

Everyone on the planet has a dark and a light. That's a multi-dimensional character.

As human beings, we are all flawed. And just like there is a good side, there is also a bad side waiting to find its way out.

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

I was never more alive than when the Dark Passenger was driving.

There is a little bit of evil in all of us, and it's very easy to draw that out.

I think we all have a kind of dark side, and that's what keeps life - and characters - interesting. That's one of the things that I'm drawn to write about again and again, the secrets we keep and how they shape us.

It's almost as if we each have a vampire inside us. Controlling that beast, that dark side, is what fascinates me.

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

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.

Inside each of us, there is the seed of both good and evil. It's a constant struggle as to which one will win. And one cannot exist without the other.

My dark side, my shadow, my lower companion is now in the back room blowing up balloons for kids' parties.

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

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.

I played Lucifer once, which is sort of a difficult character to research. I thought to myself, "We all have the potential to be selfish, to be cruel - at least to think evil thoughts, even if we don't ever act out on them. Even if we don't ever think we behave badly, we probably do more than we realize."

Maybe we all have a dark place inside of us, a place where dark thoughts and darker dreams live, but it doesn't have to become who we are.

People with the purest souls are capable of the greatest evils.

Inside each of us is a monster; inside each of us is a saint. The real question is which one we nurture the most, which one will smite the other.

In years to come, he would be a giver of bread, not a stealer - proof again of the contradictory human being. So much good, so much evil. Just add water.

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

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.

A novel can grant humanity even to those who act inhumanely, and by making men and women of monsters, it can offer not only a ground-level view of a particular conflict, but a descent into the substratum of human nature capable of the incomprehensible.