Steve Rainwater

“The man who will demand ten signatures upon a promissory note and look askance at you if you tell him of interplanetary distances, will swallow any idle fable, no matter how absurd, if it be boldly asserted and surrounded with sufficient nonsensical mummery and labeled as a religion.”
― Seabury Quinn, The Devil's Rosary

“Me, I know the by-ways of ghostland as I know my own pocket, and I solemnly assure you there is no such thing as the supernatural. There is undoubtedly the superphysical; there is also that class of natural phenomena which we do not understand; but the supernatural? Non, it is not so.”
― Seabury Quinn, The Dark Angel

“My business is to know things, especially things which I am not supposed to know.”
― Seabury Quinn, Black Moon: The Complete Tales of Jules de Grandin, Volume Five

“Everything is natural, though if we do not know, or if we misread nature's laws, we falsely call it otherwise. Consider: Fifty years ago a man beholding the radio would have called it supernatural, yet the laws of physics governing the device were known as well then as now. But their application had not yet been learned.”
― Seabury Quinn, The Devil's Rosary