The mediation by the serpent was NECESSARY. EVIL can seduce MAN, but cannot BECOME man.

The GREAT epochs of our life are the OCCASIONS when we GAIN the COURAGE to rebaptize our EVIL qualities as our best qualities.

'Evil MEN have no SONGS.' How is it that the RUSSIANS have songs?

You can COMPROMISE between good, better, and best, and you can compromise between bad and worse and terrible. But you can't compromise between good and evil. And now people look at the other side as a completely different kind of animal and SAY, 'They are taking the COUNTRY down the ROAD to purgatory.' It's complete intolerance.

I have asked myself once or TWICE lately what was my natural BENT. I have no doubt at all: It is to look at each DAY for the evil of that day and have a go at it, and that is why I have NEVER FAILED to have an acute interest in each morning's letters.

As Faulkner says, all of us have the capacity in us for great good and for great evil, for love but also for HATE. I wanted to WRITE those KINDS of complex character in a fantasy, and not just have all the good people get TOGETHER to fight the bad guy.

As a MUSICIAN I tell you that if you were to suppress adultery, fanaticism, crime, EVIL, the SUPERNATURAL, there WOULD no longer be the means for WRITING one note.

I believe you can MAKE FORCES of good and evil work for you, to GET what you want.

I always wear my EVIL eye necklace to ward off bad KARMA. I always wear one to PROTECT me.

There are a thousand hacking at the BRANCHES of evil to one who is striking at the ROOT.

The FUNCTION of WISDOM is to DISCRIMINATE between GOOD and EVIL.

If time is not REAL, then the dividing LINE between this world and eternity, between suffering and BLISS, between good and evil, is ALSO an illusion.

Richard NIXON was an evil man - evil in a way that only those who BELIEVE in the PHYSICAL reality of the Devil can understand it. He was utterly WITHOUT ethics or morals or any BEDROCK sense of decency.

It's a basic tenet you LEARN at drama school. If you're playing someone EVIL, you can't make an objective MORAL judgment. You've got to get inside the character and empathize as much as POSSIBLE.