“But no one ever is allowed in Sleepytown, unlessHe goes to bed in time to take the Sleepytown Express!”

“...his girl was on the tentacles of expectation about it.(From Mr. Humphreys and his Inheritance)”

“Sleep with one eye open and one hand on the jewels.”

“What I mean by reading is not skimming, not being able to say as the world saith, "Oh, yes, I've read that!," but reading again and again, in all sorts of moods, with an increase of delight every time, till the thing read has become a part of your system and goes forth along with you to meet any new experience you may have.”

“When you break something and leave it lying there for someone to pick up the pieces, you don't get much say in how they put it back together.”

“In all the darkest pages in the malign supernatural, there is no more terrible tradition than that of a vampire - a pariah even among demons”

“Reason is the hero who breaks the chains of our prejudice, saving us from the prison of our comfortable acquiescence in the way of the world.”