All things truly wicked start from an innocence.

I do not think I had ever seen a nastier-looking man.... Under the black hat, when I had first seen them, the eyes had been those of an unsuccessful rapist.

His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he d…

Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre.