From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent.

The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination.

Life has never interested me so much as the escape from life.

We shall see that at which dogs howl in the dark, and that at which cats prick up their ears after midnight.

While my chosen form of story-writing is obviously a special and perhaps a narrow one, it is none the less a persistent and permanent type of expression, as old as literature itself. There will always be a certain small percentage of persons who feel a burning curiosity about unknown outer space, and a burning desire to escape from the prison-house of the known and the real into those enchanted lands of incredible adventure and infinite possibilities which dreams open up to us, and which things like deep woods, fantastic urban towers, and flaming sunsets momentarily suggest.

What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world's beauty, is everything!

There were nameless horrors abroad; and no matter how little one might be able to get at them, one ought tp stand prepared for any sort of action at any time.