It is curious how, from time immemorial, man seems to have associated the idea of evil with beauty, shrunk from it with a sort of ghostly fear, while, at the same time drawn to it by force of its hypnotic attraction.
“In our view, successful reform is not an event. It is a sustainable process that will build on its own successes - a virtuous cycle of change.”
“If one book's done this well, you want to write another one that does just as well. There's that horror of the second novel that doesn't match up.”