Light Has Weight, but Darkness Does Not (Nameless: Season Two #4)

by Dean Koontz

much the world is changing. It seems like most everyone has taken

up several causes each and spends a lot of time shouting to one another about how virtuous they are without noticing that in spite of all this loud righteousness, just about everything is getting worse—maybe not in spite of it, but because of it.

when so many people take so much pride in their rectitude, there’s a perilous shortage of humility. Humble people know that no one can know everything, so they are less likely to saddle up and ride off a cliff just because the prideful have agreed their virtue requires everyone to believe that horses can fly. Humility is the mortar of

civilization.

very much wants to reread all of Donald Westlake’s work.

there’s nothing unusual about beauty being the target of dark forces. It is the history of evil people that they first seek to destroy innocence because innocence is beauty, and then seek to destroy what is merely beautiful because it reminds them

of the innocence they have forsaken.