Every present anger derives from past weakness.
You love life because life's all there is.
Peace is purchased in the currency of loss.
Literature is humanity's broad-minded alter-ego, with room in its heart for monsters, even for you. It's humanity without the judgement.
The first horror is there's horror. The second is you accommodate it.
No artist knows everything... but since every artist knows more than he can tell, all art is lying by omission.