Watch Toni Morrison on Good vs Evil

"Sometimes you don't survive whole.  You just survive in part.  But the grandeur of life is that attempt.  It's not about that solution.  It is about being as fearless as one can and behaving as beautifully as one can under completely impossible circumstances.

It's that that makes it elegant.   Good is just more interesting, more complex, more demanding.   Evil is silly.   It may be horrible, but at the same time it's not a compelling idea.  It's  predictable. It needs a tuxedo, it needs a headline.  It needs blood, it needs fingernails.  It needs all that costume.

But the opposite, which is survival, blossoming, endurance.  Those things are just more compelling intellectually, if not spiritually.   It's a more fascinating job. We are already born.  We are going to die, so you have to do something interesting that you respect in between.
  -Toni Morrison