As far as God goes, I _am_ a nonbeliever. Still am. But when it comes to a devil---well, that's something else.

I'm not aware that I was consciously influenced by any director, though these things often happen unnoticed, submerged in the unconscious.

The terror drifted over georgetown like the sun over a blind mans eyes

Procrastination is what we often call 'resistance.

We mourn the blossoms of May because they are to whither; but we know that May is one day to have its revenge upon November, by the revolution of that solemn circle which never stops - which teaches us in our height of hope, ever to be sober, and in our depth of desolation, never to despair.

Earth is a homicide victim. We lose our children. There are wars. Disease. And God comes strolling by like a cosmic Billie Burke.

What looked like morning was the beginning of endless night