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

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 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 world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.

While there may be many things in life you wish to harvest not every seed you plant will grow.

This very moment is your greatest adventure.

I have a very dark sense of humor.

You're shadowed by your own dream, especially as you get older, of trying to create something that will last in poetry. And so, you're working on its behalf.

I worry about my voice 24/7 when I'm on tour. It's like a pitcher and his arm. It's constantly the thing that my whole life revolves around.

[...] you can get anything in this world if you genuinely don't want it.

I get so tired listening to one million dollars here, one million dollars there, it's so petty.

The beauty of the moonlight has no meaning for the bats and for the unfeeling minds!

Me shooting 40% at the foul line is just God's way to say nobody's perfect.

Nobody feels anybody else's pains because they're not their.