I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.

It must be remembered that there is no real reason to expect anything in particular from mankind; good and evil are local expedients--or their lack--and not in any sense cosmic truths or laws.

No one ever wrote a story yet without some real emotional drive behind it--and I have not that drive except where violations of the natural order ... defiances and evasions of time, space, and cosmic law ... are concerned.

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