I could not write about "ordinary people" because I am not in the least interested in them.

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.

The difference between a dream and a fantasy is action.

You are intelligent, you are diplomatic, you are beautiful, and you are and always will be...[he kisses her]...MINE...

We are oftener treacherous through weakness than through calculation.

There’s no excuse…for women today not to own their own power and lead an unlimited life.

The best things beyond their measure cloy.

Whomsoever you follow, howsoever great, see to it that you follow the spirit of the master and not imitate him mechanically.

The bitterest truth is better than the sweetest lie.

I don't know how I ever lived before You are my life, my destiny Oh my darling, I love you so You mean everything to me

I choose you over everyone.

Fill the brain with high thoughts, highest ideals, place them day and night before you, and out of that will come great work.