" So you’re saying that demons aren’t as smart as angels.” “Perhaps they could be,” he said, “but their state of mind interferes with their intelligence. It interferes with their observations, and their conclusions. It interferes with everything that they do. Theirs is a hideous predicament. They refuse to admit that they have lost.” That was beautiful. I liked it. I liked the puzzle of it and the truth of it. "

― Anne Rice , Of Love and Evil (Songs of the Seraphim, #2)