All my tales are based on the fundamental premise that common human laws and interests and emotions have no validity or significance in the vast cosmos-at-large.

That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die.

I felt myself on the edge of the world; peering over the rim into a fathomless chaos of eternal night.

Who knows the end? What has risen may sink, and what has sunk may rise. Loathsomeness waits and dreams in the deep, and decay spreads over the tottering cities of men.

The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown

If I am mad, it is mercy! May the gods pity the man who in his callousness can remain sane to the hideous end!

No new horror can be more terrible than the daily torture of the commonplace.

I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.

I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to make him really know what he's talking about.

The Old Ones were, the Old Ones are, and the Old Ones shall be. Not in the spaces we know, but between them. They walk serene and primal, undimensioned and to us unseen.

If I could create an ideal world, it would be an England with the fire of the Elizabethans, the correct taste of the Georgians, and the refinement and pure ideals of the Victorians.

I don't judge too much as long as it's good. As long as it's good music and good artistry, I'm with it.

If you are doing all you can to the fullest of your ability as well as you can, there is nothing else that is asked of a soul.

Art strives for structure, and aspires for magnificence.

I never want to compromise my act just to get a laugh.

I love Indian music very much, but I haven't studied that specifically.

The cornerstone of religion, a clear vision can inspire great action and firm conviction.

Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.

War seems to come out of nowhere, like rust that suddenly pops up on iron after a storm.

This awful concept of underclass is really horrifying. You're not lower class, you are excluded - outside.