Hate wears you down and doesn’t hurt your enemy. It’s like taking poison and hoping your enemy will die.

What else are our lives but a story we tell ourselves to find some sense in the pain ofliving?

Crime has always been a regrettably consistent element of the human experience.

Hate wears you down and doesn’t hurt your enemy. It’s like taking poison and hoping your enemy will die.

If man could apply half the ingenuity he’s exhibited in the creation of weapons to more sensible ends, there’s no limit to what he might yet accomplish

The superhero genre speaks to a vast swath of humanity these days, and studios are in the business of constantly renewing their money-printing licenses. I sense we're nearing a saturation point with some of these icons, where it becomes more about the action figures and Happy Meals than it does the mythological heartbeat of the core ideas.

I have traveled down this path before - 'List of Seven' and 'Twin Peaks' both have thematic similarities - but 'Paladin' took me much deeper into the intuitive underground. Always bearing in mind Joseph Campbell's Rule No. 1: When entering a labyrinth, don't forget your ball of twine.