If we were sensible we would seek death - the same blissful blank which we enjoyed before we existed.

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’m a dot in the grand scheme of things. I don’t matter, not even to the other dots.

Each second of every time has its own story and history to be filed.

If you have time to get your pet rabbit its own Instagram account, you have time to at least tweet about something important.

Having insurance doesn't guarantee good health outcomes, but it is a critical factor.

As my sister got older, I saw how excited she got when she got to do all of that stuff. I was always like, "One day, I'll get to do older parts." I thought that was cool.

Sleep not when others speak, sit not when others stand, speak not when you should hold your peace, walk not when others stop.

I had two experiences of criminality: one was my conman father, the other was teaching at Eton

Elegance is all in the mind of the wearer.

I know that I'm here - I believe that I'm here for a purpose. I believe in forces of fate.

Hierarchy, as in the Catholic Church, has to do with power, and vertical attention has to do with longing.