That's what was wrong with drinking too much. You became immune to drunken delights. There was no solace in liquor. Before you got happy, you collapsed.

Normalcy was a majority concept, the standard of many and not the standard of just one man.

How long did it take for a past to die?

If men only felt about death as they do about sleep, all terrors would cease. . . Men sleep contentedly, assured that they will wake the following morning. They should feel the same about their lives.

To me there is nothing that goes against nature. If it seems incomprehensible, its only because we havent been able to understand it yet.

…Those who’ve marred their appearance in any way by their actions in life aren’t forced to witness that marring. If they were, they’d become self-conscious and be unable to concentrate on improving themselves.

In a world of monotonous horror there could be no salvation in wild dreaming.