How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?

I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine.

Youth is insolent; it is its right - its necessity; it has got to assert itself, and all assertion in this world of doubts is a defiance, is an insolence.

The vilest scramble for loot that ever disfigured the history of human conscience.

Madness alone is truly terrifying, inasmuch as you cannot placate it by threats, persuasion, or bribes.

We live as we dream - alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully.

We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness