He who sups with the devil had better have a long spoon. The devilry of modernity has its own magic: The [believer] who sups with it will find his spoon getting shorter and shorter—until that last supper in which he is left alone at the table, with no spoon at all and with an empty plate. The devil, one may guess, will by then have gone away to more interesting company.

A Rumor of Angels: Modern Society and the Rediscovery of the Supernatural (ed. Open Road Media, 2011) - ISBN: 9781453215432