We left Dayton, September 23, and arrived at our camp at Kill Devil Hill on Friday, the 25th.

Elisha Cook was a darling, and full of the devil. A wired - up little fellow who was always busy, busy, busy.

The devil made me do it.

There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays to the devil.

This discourse, and the present frame of my mind, lead me rather to speak to those, who by feeling Satan's fiery darts, know assuredly that there is a devil.

God exists since mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exists since we cannot prove it.

What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it's a drag? But you see, that's what people do.

Country and western is the music of the devil. That's the real truth of the matter. My late Mother, bless her, loved country and western. God, I couldn't handle it.

Don't you know there ain't no devil, it's just god when he's drunk.

The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil.

What the devil does the plot signify, except to bring in fine things?

But then in novels the most indifferent hero comes out right at last. Some god comes out of a theatrical cloud and leaves the poor devil ten thousand-a-year and a title.

The devil is a better theologian than any of us and is a devil still.

For Devil's Backbone I loved it but I felt very pressured but so I was neurotic on the shoot.

But I think we are seeing a resurgence of the graphic ghost story like The Others, Devil's Backbone and The Sixth Sense. It is a return to more gothic atmospheric ghost storytelling.