The vision seemed to enter the house with me-the stretcher, the phantom-bearers, the wild crowd of obedient worshippers, the gloom of the forests, the glitter of the reach between the murky bends, the beat of the drum, regular and muffled like the beating of a heart-the heart of a conquering darkness.

But his soul was mad. Being alone in the wilderness, it had looked within itself and, by heavens I tell you, it had gone mad.

All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. All intellectual and artistic ambitions are permissible, up to and even beyond the limit of prudent sanity. They can hurt no one.

We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness

As to honor - you know - it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs.

Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.

There is something haunting in the light of the moon.