The demon Screwtape to his protégé Wormwood (so “the Enemy” is referring to God):

“The Christians describe the Enemy as one ‘without whom Nothing is strong.’  And Nothing is very strong: strong enough to steal away a man’s best years not in sweet sins but in a dreary flickering of the mind over it knows not what and knows not why, in the gratification of curiosities so feeble that the man is only half aware of them, in drumming of fingers and kicking of heels, in whistling tunes that he does not like, or in the long, dim labyrinth of reveries that have not even lust or ambition to give them a relish, but which once chance association has started them, the creature is too weak and fuddled to shake off.”

Lewis penned these words in 1942.  I wonder if he could have ever imagined just how much more relevant they would be today.  And I wonder if Mark Zuckerberg read The Screwtape Letters before he invented Facebook . . .