7 quotes
What was the whole literature of supernatural horror but an essay to make death itself exciting?—wonder and strangeness to life’s very end.
Our Lady of Darkness (1977)
Science has only increased the area of the unknown. And if there is a God, her name is Mystery.
Our Lady of Darkness (1977)
“You’ve got to believe there’s some sort of sense in everything that crazies say.”
“Crazies?”
“All of us.”
Our Lady of Darkness (1977)
I think all modern cities, especially the crass, newly built, highly industrial ones, should have ghosts. They are a civilizing influence.
Our Lady of Darkness (1977)
I am up to date only sporadically. I live firmly in the world of art, where reality and fantasy are one.
Our Lady of Darkness (1977)
You know, all insanity is a form of artistic expression, I often think. Only the person has nothing but himself to work with—he can’t get at outside materials to manipulate them—so he puts all his art into his behavior.
Our Lady of Darkness (1977)
It was funny, though, how the human mind would cast doubt even on itself in order to explain away unusual and unconventional things it had seen vividly and unmistakably. It left you in the middle, the human mind did.
Our Lady of Darkness (1977)