I had never before met anyone who owned a telephone and believed in dragons..

Everything was quiet, as if the silence was listening..

I had a friend, a lover. Or did I dream it? So many dreams are crowding upon me now that I can scarcely tell true from false: dreams like light impri….

My ideas were confused. In a peculiar way, the unreality of the outer world appeared to be an extension of my own disturbed state of mind..

At last I feel identified with the mountains, clean, cold, hard, detached..

I had a curious feeling that I was living on several planes simultaneously; the overlapping of these planes was confusing..

To wait - only to wait - without even the final merciful deprivation of hope.Sometimes I think that some secret court must have tried and condemned m….

The man has a curious inborn conviction of his own superiority which is quite unshakeable. All his life he has bullied and browbeaten those around hi….

A terrible cold world of ice and death had replaced the living world we had always known. Outside there was only the deadly cold, the frozen vacuum o….

I know I've got a death wish. I've never enjoyed my life, I've never liked people. I love the mountains because they are the negation of life, indest….

Reality had always been something of an unknown quantity to me..

What can I do now? What am I to become? How can I live in this world I'm condemned to but can't endure? They couldn't stand it either, so they made a….

Sometimes a savage beauty lured me into the sun and I would start to love the danger a little. On these occasions I felt the reluctant love drained p….

You mustn't be so afraid of life - it's all we've got. Don't let it hurt you so much..

Because of my fear that the daytime world would become real, I had to establish reality in another place..

While I am watching the birds I believe I am comparatively immune from the assaults of life. The very indifference to humanity of these wild creature….