Intellectually, the Republican idea deserves the tolerance and respect one gives to the dead.

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.

While you've been gadding about the countryside, we've held a meeting, and we've all of us decided that you must go.'In short, we've voted you out of the family, ' Daffy said. 'It was unanimous.

As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you.

My pain may be the reason for somebody's laugh.But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody's pain.

Your heart is full of fertile seeds, waiting to sprout.

I believe life is an intelligent thing: that things aren't random.

The real thing is the heart, you know the heart shouldn't be covered with concrete.

I love words; they are the quoits, the bows, the staves that furnish the gymnasium of the mind.

A lot of country pubs will receive Michelin stars.

I hate to say it because I feel like it might be a jinx, but yes - knock on wood - I have never broken a bone.

I don't have much history - I've got Rosie Perez, Jennifer Lopez, Rita Moreno. That's it. That's the history of Latin women in Hollywood, really.