All the mortal world is a lethal enemy during those hours between dawn and dusk.

Because," she said, "that is what men would call it. They invented Satan, didn't they? Satanic is merely the name they give to the behavior of those who would disrupt the orderly way in which men want to live.

Sometimes fear is a warning. It's like someone putting a hand on your shoulder and saying Go No Farther.

I'm Gentleman Death in silk and lace, come to put out the candles. The canker in the heart of the rose.

Evil is just a point of view

Perhaps I fear him because I could love him again, and in loving him, I would come to need him, and in needing him, I would again be his faithful pupil in all things, only to discover that his patience for me is no substitute for the passion which long ago blazed in his eyes.

The atheism and nihilism of my earlier years now seems shallow, and even a bit cocky.