Curtis Harrington credited as playing...
Roderick Usher • Madeline Usher
- Roderick Usher: What brings you here?
- Truman Jones: To ask you questions about your work, Mr. Usher. To learn more about the art of poetry.
- Roderick Usher: I am not a teacher, Mr. Jones. I am simply a poet. Perhaps, not a very good one, at that.
- Roderick Usher: Welcome. Do forgive me if I don't get up. My energy has been rather depleted these days.
- Roderick Usher: I won't ask if you've had a pleasant journey. Airplane travel is an abomination. It's a pity you couldn't have come on the Sunset Limited.
- Truman Jones: I - don't think it exist anymore, sir.
- Roderick Usher: Quite so. Think of them, Mr Jones: The Orient-Simplon Express, the Golden Arrow, the Brighton Bell, the Twentieth Century Limited. Names to conjure with. All gone.
- Roderick Usher: We shall have tea in a moment. But, perhaps you'd like some gin?
- Truman Jones: No, thank you.
- Roderick Usher: My only weakness.
- Roderick Usher: You must try one of Pierre's excellent Madeleines. They always make one think of Proust. Speak of the devil.
- Roderick Usher: Tell me, Mr. Jones, have you ever written a poem about death?
- Truman Jones: No, I haven't.
- Roderick Usher: Has it's cold breath never touched your young life.
- Truman Jones: When I was 12, my father died.
- Roderick Usher: You see, I have been suffering from a certain morbidness of the mind. I am tormented by - images - of the conqueror worm devouring flesh, that flesh that once gave one so much pleasure.