Dean Koontz comments on Evil --

The devil and all his demons are dull and predictable because of their single-minded rebellion against truth. Crime itself --as opposed to the solving of it-- is boring to the complex mind, though endlessly fascinating to the simpleminded.

One film about Hannibal Lecter is riveting, but a second is inevitably stupefying.

We have a series hero, but a series villain quickly becomes silly as he strives so obviously to shock us.

Virtue is imaginative, evil repetitive.

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Some people misunderstand evil and believe it will relent, and because their misplaced hope inspires dark hearts to dream darker dreams, they are the fathers and mothers of all wars.

Evil does not relent; it must be defeated. And even when defeated, uprooted, and purified by fire, evil leaves behind a seed that will one day germinate and, in blooming, again be misunderstood.


---From Odd Apocalypse, by Dean Koontz