"Most writers can invent a Baddy, and a few of them a Goody. But there are some characters in books who live their own abundant life beyond the threshold of our business of moral judgments.

Here we are, they seem to say, and now what are you going to make of us?

Despite their authors they are outside good and evil. They exist by right of their own joy in life. They are as naturally and brilliantly alive as a swallow diving on a cat."

- "The Hot Gates" William Golding 1911-1993