The place was silent and - aware.

Civilization is hideously fragile [and] there's not much between us and the horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish.

It is good people who make good places.

Genius is intensity. The man who gets anything worth having is the man who goes after his object as a bulldog goes after a cat - with every fiber in him tense with eagerness and determination.

I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men.

From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent.