That's the real power of art, I think. Not to chide but to provoke challenge. Otherwise why bother?

It isn’t hard to find evil in this world. Evil is always more easily imagined than good, somehow.

The real thing about evil," said the Witch at the doorway, "isn't any of what you said. You figure out one side of it - the human side, say - and the eternal side goes into shadow. Or vice versa. It's like the old saw: What does a dragon in its shell look like? Well no one can ever tell, for as soon as you break the shell to see, the dragon is no longer in its shell. The real disaster of this inquiry is that it is the nature of evil to be secret.

She wasn't afraid of doing good or of resisting evil. She was merely afraid she might not be able to tell the difference.

In the end, all disguises must drop.

The eye is always caught by light, but shadows have more to say.

Where I'm from, we believe in all sorts of things that aren't true... we call it history.