It was funny, though, how the human mind would cast doubt even on itself in order to explain away unusual and unconventional things it had seen vivid… - Fritz Leiber

What is superstition, but misguided, unobjective science? And when it comes down to that, is it to be wondered if people grasp at superstition in this rotten, hate-filled, half-doomed world of today? Lord knows, I'd welcome the blackest of black magic, if it could do anything to stave off the atom bomb.

Not for the first time Richard reflected that this age’s vaunted ‘communications industry’ had chiefly provided people and nations with the means of frightening to death and simultaneously boring to extinction themselves and each other.

I think all modern cities, especially the crass, newly built, highly industrial ones, should have ghosts. They are a civilizing influence.