The universe and its design is often one of arbitrary horror.

This book's like black holes. It really engulfes you whole.

As Jess watched in numb horror, the man tore a page from the book and stuffed it into his mouth.

Had Moreau had any intelligible object, I could have sympathized at least a little with him. I am not so squeamish about pain as that. I could have forgiven him a little even, had his motive been only hate. But he was so irresponsible, so utterly careless! His curiosity, his mad, aimless investigations, drove him on; and the Things were thrown out to live a year or so, to struggle and blunder and suffer, and at last to die painfully.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

He was following the Earth through its days, drifting with the rhythms of its myriad pulses, seeping through the webs of its life, swelling with its tides, turning with its weight.