As human beings, our only sensible scale of values is one based on lessening the agony of existence.

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.

Something good about love: if you fall in it, you will not feel any pain.

To slur “feminism” into “humanism” is to usurp women’s voices once again, to make the singular feminine into the so-called universal masculine.

Sometimes we don't see out of our peripheral vision what's coming right around the corner.

How happily, how happily, the flowers die away! / Oh! Could we but return to earth as easily as they.

But I know a lie when I hear one.

The happiest man is the one who finds happiness at home.

Everyone has learning difficulties, because learning to speak French or understanding relativity is difficult.

What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.

And when you cannot prove that people are wrong, but only that they are absurd, the best course is to let them alone.

Custer is said to have boasted that he could ride through the entire Sioux Nation with his Seventh Cavalry, and he was half right. He got half-way through.