Robert Aickman

“Answers are almost always insufficient. They are almost always misleading.”

“At heart, women are creatures of darkness all the time.”

“The first step towards mastering time is always to make time meaningless”

“No milk. It is black coffee, pure but strong, that fortifies against the powers of darkness with which the world is filled.”

“After all, that was a main purpose of science: to make things of all kinds happen sooner than they otherwise would.”

“Enchanted islands are hard to understand,' he said. 'I've always thought that. It worried me even as a child. The trouble is that you can never be sure where the enchantment begins and where it ends.”

“Conventions are, indeed, all that shield us from the shivering void, though often they do so but poorly and desperately.”

“Haven't you noticed by this time that everyone's lives are full of things you can't understand? The exceptional thing is the thing you can understand.”