If I am mad, it is mercy! May the gods pity the man who in his callousness can remain sane to the hideous end!

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

Something like fear chilled me as I sat there in the small hours alone-I say alone, for one who sits by a sleeper is indeed alone; perhaps more alone than he can realise.

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

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.

Vigorous let us be in attaining our ends, and mild in our method of attainment.

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.