East of Eden

"i believe that there is one story in the world, and only one... Humans are caught - in their lives, in their thoughts, in their hungers and ambitions, in their avarice and cruelty, and in their kindness and generosity too - in a net of good and evil... and it occurs to me that evil must constantly respawn, while good, while virtue, is immortal."

-John Steinbeck, East of Eden