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.

Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane.

Non- Euclidean calculus and quantum physics are enough to stretch any brain; and when one mixes them with folklore, and tries to trace a strange background of multi-dimensional reality behind the ghoulish hints of Gothic tales and the wild whispers of the chimney-corner, one can hardly expect to be wholly free from mental tension. (Dreams In The Witch-House)

Only poetry or madness could do justice to the noises.

If I could create an ideal world, it would be an England with the fire of the Elizabethans, the correct taste of the Georgians, and the refinement and pure ideals of the Victorians.

From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent.