Compulsory Games Quotes

“One point is that strangeness usually takes an unexpected form, it is no good looking for something strange. It only happens when you're not looking.”
― Robert Aickman, Compulsory Games

“Nowadays a man with a business of his own needs to flake out completely at fairly regular intervals.”
― Robert Aickman, Compulsory Games

“Busy people have no time for ghosts.”
― Robert Aickman, Compulsory Games

“Colin had noticed that the more hopeless and tragic a situation, the more the English resorted to laughter.”
― Robert Aickman, Compulsory Games

“People in bed alone are different from people in bed with someone else in the room.”
― Robert Aickman, Compulsory Games

“But after life has begun to run away from us, nothing is ever again really credible, nor does it matter.”
― Robert Aickman, Compulsory Games