I've never laid a cane on the back of a lord before, but if you force me to I shall speedily become used to the practice.
The most terrifying fact about the universe not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent
Have you ever had a single moment's thought about my responsibilities?
How does anybody ever think of anything?
You either care or you donโt.
In his essay on the uncanny, Das Unheimliche, Freud said that the uncanny is the only feeling which is more powerfully experienced in art than in life. If the horror genre required any justification, I should think this alone would serve as its credentials.