Too Afraid

You know, the Cathars believed that the world was not created by God but by a demon who had stolen a few technological secrets from Him and made this world -- which is why it doesn't work.  I don't share this heresy.  I'm too afraid!

-- Eugène Ionesco (1909 - 1994), Romanian playwright and dramatist, in "Eugene Ionesco, The Art of Theater No. 6" interviewed by Shusha Guppy, in Paris Review (Fall 1984), No. 93