"Humanity will destroy itself, body and soul, before it will learn a simple lesson."

“I do not so much write a book as sit up with it, as a dying friend. I hold its hand and hope it will get better.”

“Nearly all the writing of our time is likely to disappear in a hundred years. Certainly most readers - and nearly all critics - feel that [Kurt] Vonnegut started to repeat himself, to grow increasingly self-indulgent and meandering, and to sometimes just blather in his later work. But his books up to "Slaughterhouse-Five" do possess a distinctiveness that will insure some kind of permanence, if only in the history of the 1960s and of science fiction.”

Source : "Kurt Vonnegut". Live discussion, www.washingtonpost.com. April 12, 2007.

“The act of love strongly resembles torture or surgery.”

“The secret of spiritual success is a hunger that persists…It is an awful condition to be satisfied with one’s spiritual attainments…God was and is looking for hungry, thirsty people.”

“If you feel like you're in control of everything, and then things aren't going well, you feel like you're failing.”

“My handsome Knight of Night came over to me and kissed me softly on the cheek.”

“It's not the size of the hard drive that counts, it's how you download it.”

“It is all nonsense, to be sure; and so much the greater nonsense inasmuch as the true interpretation of many dreams - not by any means of all dreams - moves, it may be said, in the opposite direction to the method of psycho-analysis.”

Source : Arthur Machen (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of Arthur Machen (Illustrated)”, p.1199, Delphi Classics