Nick

“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.”
― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

“I have written a wicked book, and feel spotless as the lamb.”
― Herman Melville

“Don't touch me, I'm full of snakes.”
― Jack Kerouac

“We live as we dream--alone....”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness