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Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
You know that saying, bad things don't happen to good people? That's a lie.
The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.
You can't do a good deal with bad people, and you can't do a bad deal with good people. I often use that as my compass.
There are more honest people and more good people than there are thieves and bad people. It's just always been that way.
In a novel, if you're any good, you don't just have good people or bad people. You have complicated people. You have real people.
I've realized over the years I either play very good people or very bad people, and I think I always enjoy the very bad people more.
I'd read a lot of thrillers about politicians and presidents, but never one where you flip the stereotypes and make good people bad and bad people good.
You don't learn from good people - they've found what works for them and are completely original; you learn from the people who are bad. You think: 'Oh dear, I'm not going to do that.'
I don't think there is anything unusual about my struggle. It's a very typical struggle where you meet bad people, and then you meet good people, and then you finally have a breakthrough.
The thematic bucket of vomit that I've been chained to since I was about 9 is the moral complexity of anti-heroism. I have always been interested in good people who do bad things for understandable reasons.
The Trump administration recognizes that most refugees and immigrants are good people, but practical and temporary measures must be taken to keep this nation safe from the few bad individuals who seek to harm us.
In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.
I've actually always wanted to be able to read people's minds. My sister did a movie with super-powers and that's the one I would have wanted, so I really lucked out. The negative is that people are really cruel in their own minds, but you can weed out the bad people from the good people, and then just hang out with the good people.
