A pretty sight, a lady with a book.

I never was a person who wanted a handout. I was a cafeteria worker. I'm not too proud to ask the Best Western manager to give me a job. I have cleaned homes.

No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.

I very much dislike writing about myself or my work, and when pressed for autobiographical material can only give a bare chronological outline which contains no pertinent facts.

Materializations are often best produced in rooms where there are books. I cannot think of any time when materialization was in any way hampered by the presence of books.

So long as you write it away regularly nothing can really hurt you.

Fear," the doctor said, "is the relinquishment of logic, the willing relinquishing of reasonable patterns. We yield to it or we fight it, but we cannot meet it halfway.

I have always loved to use fear, to take it and comprehend it and make it work and consolidate a situation where I was afraid and take it whole and work from there.

I delight in what I fear.

The sight of one's own heart is degrading; people are not meant to look inward - that's why they've been given bodies, to hide their souls.

We eat the year away. We eat the spring and the summer and the fall. We wait for something to grow and then we eat it.

If we are of one mind, thousands can be conquered.If we are of one heart, millions can be conquered.If we are of one soul, countless can be conquered.

For writers it is always said that the first twenty years of life contain the whole of experience – the rest is observation

Life is the music of your soul

I'm a very early riser, and so I like to get up and try hard to write before the day even really gets started. Just me and a pot of coffee -I find I can get a lot done that way.

A Christianity which will not help those who are struggling from the bottom to the top of society, needs another Christ to die for it.

I'm pretty aware that the pursuit of perfection is, inherently, a flawed concept.

There is no issue of States' rights or National rights. There is only the struggle for human rights.

But, o, photography! as no art is,Faithful and disappointing! That recordsDull days as dull, and hold-it smiles as frauds,And will not censor blemishes,Like washing-lines, and Hall's-Distemper boards

Nature abhors the old.

Charlie Marlowe never wrote horror, but somehow horror was writing Charlie Marlowe.