The Westerly Wind asserting his sway from the south-west quarter is often like a monarch gone mad, driving forth with wild imprecations the most faithful of his courtiers to shipwreck, disaster, and death.

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

His very existence was improbable, inexplicable, and altogether bewildering. He was an insoluble problem. It was inconceivable how he had existed, how he had succeeded in getting so far, how he had managed to remain -- why he did not instantly disappear.

A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.

All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

The very young have, properly speaking, no moments. It is the privilege of early youth to live in advance of its days in all the beautiful continuity of hope which knows no pauses and no introspection.

... it was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice.