Lucifer says: fuck it, may as well storm heaven while I still belong to it and thereby produce the situation in which it must be stormed

... no, not even not being with God.  God always leaves one in the chamber.

 "Young man, I am amused to observe that you think I am a coward. As to that I will say only one word, and that shall be entirely in the manner of your own philosophical rhetoric. You think that it is possible to pull down the President. I know that it is impossible, and I am going to try it."

Friday, The Man Who Was Thursday