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

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

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

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

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

"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…"

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

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