"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…"

"I am writing this under an appreciable mental strain, since by tonight I shall be no more. Penniless, and at the end …"