from “Something Wicked This Way Comes” - Ray Bradbury
“Since now learn otherwise. Sometimes the man who looks the happiest in town, with the biggest smile, is the one carrying the biggest load of sin. There are smile and smiles; learn to tell the dark variety from the light. The seal-barker, the laugh shouter half the time he’s covering up. He’s had his fun and he’s guilty. And men do love sin, Will. Oh how they love it, never doubt, in all shapes, sizes, colours, and smells. Time comes when troughs, not tables, suit our appetites. Hear a man too loudly praising others, and look to woner if he didn’t just get up from the sty. On the other hand, that unhappy, pale, put-upon man walking by, who looks all guilt and sin, why, often that’s your good man with a capital G, Will. For being good is a fearful occupation…”
