The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination..

I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to make him r….

If I am mad, it is mercy! May the gods pity the man who in his callousness can remain sane to the hideous end!.

Men of broader intellect know that there is no sharp distinction betwixt the real and the unreal.

The very fact that religions are not content to stand on their own feet, but insist on crippling or warping the flexible minds of children in their f….

Man is an essentially superstitious and fearful animal. Take away the herd's Christian gods and saints and they will without failing come to worship.….

We love kitties, gawd bless their little whiskers, and we don't give a damn whether they or we are superior or inferior! They're confounded pretty, a….

I love to dream, but I never try to dream and think at the same time..

Slowly but inexorably crawling upon my consciousness and rising above every other impression, came a dizzying fear of the unknown; a fear all the gre….

In short, the world abounds with simple delusions which we may call "happiness", if we be but able to entertain them..

No amount of rationalisation, reform, or Freudian analysis can quite annul the thrill of the chimney-corner whisper or the lonely wood..

We shall see that at which dogs howl in the dark, and that at which cats prick up their ears after midnight..

But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean..

Our means of receiving impressions are absurdly few, and our notions of surrounding objects infinitely narrow. We see things only as we are construct….