Harlan Coben Quotes

Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.

I've learned a lot about good and evil. They are not always what they appear to be.

What 'True Blood' does really well is that it balances on the line between good and evil - you blur the distinction between the two.

The line between good and evil is permeable and almost anyone can be induced to cross it when pressured by situational forces.

The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.

I don't believe so much in good and evil.

There is really no right and wrong. I recognize no right and wrong.

Well, you know, in any novel you would hope that the hero has someone to push back against, and villains - I find the most interesting villains those who do the right things for the wrong reasons, or the wrong things for the right reasons. Either one is interesting. I love the gray area between right and wrong.

Fantasy is an area where it is possible to talk about right and wrong, good and evil, with a straight face. In mainstream fiction and even in a good deal of mystery, these things are presented as simply two sides of the same coin. Never really more than a matter of where you happen to be standing.

There is no right in acting.

Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is good... Everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them. That would be enough to make the world a better place.

What 'Twilight Zone' did was show we all have a great capacity for good and evil.

The old world was good guys and bad guys. The new world is gray guys.

We should not be simply fighting evil in the name of good, but struggling against the certainties of people who claim always to know where good and evil are to be found.

Good and bad are really arbitrary words when it comes to character.

Everyone spends their lives trying to balance their world between good and evil.

Life - the way it really is - is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and Worse.

I don't think good and evil are polarized.

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.

The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline.

Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.

The older I get the more I realize there's no real good guys or real bad guys, and I'm curious about how the good guys got good and how the bad guys got bad.

People's character is their behaviour - we're all capable of good and evil.

The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.

No act is of itself either good or bad. Only its place in the order of things makes it good or bad.