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For me, when I 'discover' a story, there is a feeling of buoyancy and clarity, perhaps similar to early morning out on a prairie highway, when darkness lifts and reveals the outline of farmhouses and copses of trees in the distance.

As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.

It's a constant, continuous, spectacular world we live in, and every day you see things that just knock you out, if you pay attention.

I think the mystery of what's out there in the universe is just very compelling.

Imagine a world alive with incomprehensible objects, and shimmering with an endless variety of movement and innumerable gradations of colour. Imagine a world before the 'beginning was the word.'

Atmosphere, not action, is the great desideratum of weird fiction. Indeed, all that a wonder story can ever be is a vivid picture of a certain type of human mood.

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life.