“Tell the rabble my name is Cabell.”
— James Branch Cabell speaking on the proper pronunciation of his name

“[L]ife is a fine ardent spectacle; and I have loved the actors in it:
and I have loved their youth and high-heartedness,
and their ungrounded faiths, and their queer dreams…about their own importance
and about the greatness of the destiny that awaited them,
— while you were piddling after, of all things, the truth!
— The Silver Stallion

“Mundus vult decipi”
The world wants to be deceived
— Figures of Earth: A Comedy of Appearances

“The truth about ourselves is the one truth, above all others, which we are adamantine not to face.”
— Between Dawn and Sunrise