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

For I think belief in God is not a matter of reason at all; I think it finally is a matter of love.

I didn't read The Haunting of Hill House until sometime early in the 1990's.

Would you like to hear a nice definition of jealousy? It's the feeling that you get when someone you absolutely detest is having a wonderful time without you.

Perhaps evil is the crucible of goodness... and perhaps even Satan - Satan, in spite of himself - somehow serves to work out the will of God.

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

In order for life to have appeared spontaneously on Earth, there first had to be hundreds of millions of protein molecules of the Ninth Configuration. But, given the size of the planet Earth, do you know how long it would take for just one of these protein molecules to appear by chance? Roughly 10 to the 243rd power, billions of years; and I find that far, far more fantastic than simply believing in a god.