Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique, and not too much imagination.

Horror is always aware of its cause; terror never is. That is precisely what makes terror terrifying.

George smiles to himself, with entire self-satisfaction. Yes, I am crazy, he thinks. That is my secret; my strength.

The town is an advertisement for itself; none of its charms are left to the visitor's imagination.

No one ever hates without a cause.

I'm like a book you have to read. A book can't read itself to you. It doesn't even know what it's about. I don't know what I'm about.

But seriously, I believe I'm a sort of Ideal Woman, if you know what I mean. I'm the sort of woman who can take men away from their wives, but I could never keep anybody for long. And that's because I'm the type which every man imagines he wants, until he gets me; and then he finds he doesn't really, after all.