“Aren't there gradations of evil? Is evil a great perilous gulf into which one falls with the first sin, plummeting to the depth?”

“When you find out there is no ultimate good and evil in which you can place your faith, the world does not fall apart at the seams. It simply means that every decision is more difficult, more critical, because you are creating the good and evil yourself and they are very real.”

“Evil is inevitable,' Reuben quoted, 'in the course of a creation which develops with time.”

“Don't you see? It is a new age. It requires a new evil. And I am that new evil.”

“The evil of one murder is infinite, and my guilt is like my beauty - eternal. I cannot be forgiven, for there is no one to forgive me for all I've done.”

“Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.”

“An evil for these times destined to move through the world in handsome human guise.”