"In relating the circumstances which have led to my confinement within this refuge for the demented, I am aware that m…"

"I have dwelt ever in realms apart from the visible world; spending my youth and adolescence in ancient and little-kno…"

"Sometimes I believe that this less material life is our truer life, and that our vain presence on the terraqueous glo…"

"In cloud-ships the gods are wont to travel, and wise cotters have legends that keep them from certain high peaks at n…"

"Your wonderment 'what I have against religion' reminds me of your recent Vagrant essay . . . To my mind, that essay m…"

"What do we know ... of the world and the universe about us? Our means of receiving impressions are absurdly few, and …"

"Disintegration is quite painless, I assure you."

"There are black zones of shadow close to our daily paths, and now and then some evil soul breaks a passage through. W…"

"Sometimes when earth's gods are homesick they visit in the still of the night the peaks where once they dwelt, and we…"

"The end is near. I hear a noise at the door, as of some immense slippery body lumbering against it. It shall not find…"