“It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and devils, since we invented them.”— John Steinbeck, amazon.com
“When angels go bad they are worse than anyone else. Remember Lucifer used to be an angel.”— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com
“Some communication between the spiritual world, by the union of those termed in Scripture "sons of God" and the daughters of Adam, still continued after the Fall, though their inter-alliance was not approved of by the Ruler of mankind. We are given to understand--darkly, indeed, but with as much cer…”— Sir Walter Scott, amazon.com
“Everyone knows the impulse to imagine that we were meant to be the citizens of some other place. It is from this sensation that the angels come into existence, creating in this world their ambience of pure loss.”— Stephen Mitchell, amazon.com