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What we call 'evil' doesn't necessarily deserve any kind of respect or understanding, by any means; it just deserves an acknowledgement of its complexity so we can better understand it - so we can help prevent it.

I think understanding is the way to gain perspective - and therefore can live among those hideous realities. You can live with them.

I've learned a lot about good and evil. They are not always what they appear to be.

Unfortunately, a human being is able to comprehend only that amount of evil which he is able to commit himself.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

For something to be completely evil is to be nothing. Satan has good attributes - intelligence, for instance - but they are corrupted. I cannot reconcile myself emotionally to alternative understandings of evil.

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

I think there is a complicated side effect to overcoming evil in that we are forever changed by it. I think after we ingest some of the cruelty of the world, it takes years off of our lives, but it also gives us wisdom and a little grace, hopefully a sense of compassion.

There is in the end no remedy but truth. It is the one course that cannot be evil.