It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.

If in many of my productions terror has been the thesis, I maintain that terror is not of Germany, but of the soul.

Once upon a midnight dreary

Sometimes I’m terrified of my heart; of its constant hunger for whatever it is it wants. The way it stops and starts.

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.

There are two bodies - the rudimental and the complete; corresponding with the two conditions of the worm and the butterfly. What we call "death," is but the painful metamorphosis. Our present incarnation is progressive, preparatory, temporary. Our future is perfected, ultimate, immortal. The ultimate life is the full design.