“Oh ... why not?' he smiled. "This valley is a pleasant spot for meditation. I like New England... it is here that I have experienced some of my greatest successes - and several notable defeats. Defeat, you know, is not such a bad thing, if there's not too much of it... it makes for humility, and humility makes for caution, therefore for safety.' ("Trace")” HumilitySafetyDefeatCaution Book:American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940s to Now Source: American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940s to Now
“Mom looked out of the front window, across the darkened road, across Henderson's darkened wheatfield to the vast, endless, gray nothingness in which the little village of Peaksville floated like a soul-the huge nothingness that was evident at night, when Anthony's brassy day had gone.” Eldritch LocationFloating WorldThe Twilight Zone Book:It's a Good Life Source: It's a Good Life