Quotes by : Robert Aickman

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

Enchanted islands are hard to understand,' he said. 'I've always thought that. It worried me even as....

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

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

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

It is strange that people train themselves so carefully to go to waste so prematurely

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

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

We are most of us two people, your Highness. There is something lacking in the man who is one thing only,....

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