In writing, a good guy must never break any of the Ten Commandments. A bad guy must break every one. That's why writing female characters is so much fun. They're not GUYS at all.

The soldiers in my life had raised the bar for bad guys.

I sort of got off on making bad guys sweat. Which was not unlike my love of making good guys sweat, just by very different means.

Because sometimes in life, sweetheart. The bad guys win-Ford 'Blame It on the Pain.

There are no good guys or bad guys. Not really.

Those are the bad guys, right?”“Depends on who wins, I guess.

No one just starts giggling and wearing black and signs up to become a villainous monster. How the hell do you think it happens? It happens to people. Just people. They make questionable choices, for what might be very good reasons. They make choice after choice, and none of them is slaughtering roomfuls of saints, or murdering hundreds of baby seals, or rubber-room irrational. But it adds up. And then one day they look around and realized that they're so far over the line that they can't remember where it was.

And just so you know, the invaders are always the bad guys. Always.