“It was not a noisy wind but the kind that suggests something very big and thin fresh from the horror of Infinite Space.”

“...his eyes lit up and glowed red against the dark bulk of it. A moment they remained so ... then they soared up, phosphorescently opalescent, with a predominance of red, like two sinful dead planets escaping from Hell.”

“There is nothing more harrowing than a deadly hush with the feel of a great noise around it”

“Breakfast alone by gaslight is about as ghastly as champagne in daylight.”

“There is nothing so actively alive as the dead.”

“It was such a heavenly dream: dreamed between the reality of war and the reality of hereditary madness.”

“It seemed in life, whenever you were wanted, it was for some discussion or explanation. Silence was just something to be filled.”