Life is an X-rated soap opera. - John Irving

Of course, apologies are rarely acceptable to true believers - or to anyone who believes in *pure* good, or in pure evil.

I guess [Mrs. Reagan is] one of those many American adults of a certain advanced age who believe that the root of all evil lies in the area of young people's self-abuse. Someone should tell Mrs. Reagan that young people — not even young people on drugs — are not the ones responsible for the major problems besetting the world!

You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.