What if nobody showed up at Armageddon?

Forgiveness has nothing to do with absolving a criminal of his crime. It has everything to do with relieving oneself of the burden of being a victim--letting go of the pain and transforming oneself from victim to survivor.

Transformation can come in the mysterious guise of shape-shifting, or through a simple change of mind

People don't just live one life. They keep coming back until they get it right.

He came face-to-face with the rude paradox fame had dealt him: The secret of his extraordinary art had been his ability to observe human interaction anonymously, thereby gaining insight into the emotions on display in ordinary life--it was his ability to become a fly-on-the-wall that made him famous, and fame had destroyed his ability to become a fly-on-the-wall.

How can one absolve intelligent men for engaging in arrogant and demented folly?