Emperor

“The sheer oddity of life seems to me of more and more importance, because more and more the pretense is that life is charted, predictable, and controllable.”
― Robert Aickman, Painted Devils: Strange Stories

“It’s a bit like cricket,” Pete agrees. “Weeks of endless boredom interspersed with the occasional moment of existential terror.”
― Charles Stross, The Labyrinth Index

“The word is now a virus. The flu virus may have once been a healthy lung cell. It is now a parasitic organism that invades and damages the central nervous system. Modern man has lost the option of silence. Try halting sub-vocal speech. Try to achieve even ten seconds of inner silence. You will encounter a resisting organism that forces you to talk. That organism is the word.”
― William S. Burroughs, The Ticket That Exploded

“loose lips don’t merely sink ships, they summon krakens with too many tentacles.”
― Charles Stross, The Nightmare Stacks