Goodnight sweet prince, may flights of devils wing you to your rest.

Come on, say it again. I'm a perfect devil. Tell me how bad I am. It makes me feel so good!

The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly melodic. Weeping is often fought, choked, half strangled, or surrendered to with humiliation.

That was my nature - going from temptation after temptation, not to sin, but to be redeemed.

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.

Claudia... you've been a very very naughty little girl.

The thing should have plot and character, beginning, middle and end. Arouse pity and then have a catharsis. Those were the best principles I was ever taught.