Good writing, like gold, combines lustrous lucidity with high density. What this means is good writing is packed with hints. Eric Hoffer and the Art of the Notebook (2005)
Good and evil grow up together and are bound in an equilibrium that cannot be sundered. The most we can do is try to tilt the equilibrium toward the good. Reflections on the Human Condition (1973)
If anybody asks me what I have accomplished, I will say all I have accomplished is that I have written a few good sentences.
It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak. The Passionate State of Mind (1955)
Rabid suspicion has nothing in it of skepticism. The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person. The Passionate State Of Mind, and Other Aphorisms (1955)