Sometimes I believe that this less material life is our truer life, and that our vain presence on the terraqueous globe is itself the secondary or merely virtual phenomenon.

The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear.

With hidden powers of unknown extent apparently at his disposal, Curwen was not a man who could safely be warned to leave town.

I have looked upon all the universe has to hold of horror,and even the skies of spring and flowers of summer must ever afterward be poison to me.

I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men.

I was nearly unnerved at my proximity to a nameless thing at the bottom of a pit.

It is true that I have sent six bullets through the head of my best friend, and yet I hope to show by this statement that I am not his murderer.