“...evil fascinates and repels us - it's a terrible beauty that enthralls us the more we stare into it...”
“All of us are richer and more fascinating and more complex than we can ever know.”
“Everybody sins, Francis. The terrible thing is that we love our sins. We love the thing that makes us evil.”
“We are what we are. Nothing more, nothing less. There is good and evil among every kind of people. It's the evil among us who rule now.”
“Instead of being fascinated by the things around us, we now try so hard to fascinate others by the things on us.”
“And this is the forbidden truth, the unspeakable taboo - that evil is not always repellent but frequently attractive; that it has the power to make of us not simply victims, as nature and accident do, but active accomplices.”