Sympathetic Devil

“I'd rather deal with a rogue than a fool.”
― Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

“Death was the only question that contained its own answer, and when you asked the question and had the answer you were gone, you were nothing.”
― Robert Silverberg, At Winter's End

“If you don’t remember Death, Death reminds you to do so. And if you can’t cope with the facts the next best thing is to go away for a holiday.”
― Muriel Spark, Memento Mori

“Surrounded by madness, surrounded by hunger, surrounded by everything but death, I knew death was our only way out.”
― Harlan Ellison, I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream