Are you sure you’re really the Devil and not someone else with the same name? - Keith Laumer

Strange—I go along for months at a time—even years—without so much as a mild concussion—and then bam—slam—bash! They start using my head for a practice dummy. That’s how I can tell that I’m having an adventure.

Quelius—you're nuts—did you know that?
"Of course. That's quite all right. Better embarked on an exciting insanity than moldering away in dull normality. One thing you can't deny: we psychotics lead interesting lives."

Too late, I realized how I had trapped myself. I had let sleep in as a guest, and death had slipped through the door.