It is good to be a cynic - it is better to be a contented cat - and it is best not to exist at all.

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.

Neuroimaging is the politics of pictured reality.

The combination of hatred and technology is the greatest danger threatening mankind.

If you really believe in yourself, you cannot listen to other people.

Go safely. Go safely, she thought to him. what a silly, empty thing it was to say to anyone, anywhere.

The first socialists were the intellectuals; they, and not the masses, are the backbone of Socialism.

I regretted the time I wasted on things that did not matter with people that [do] matter.

True knowledge is that which establishes harmony and synthesis between ience on the one hand and spirituality and ethics on the other.

If you have a lot of textural stuff happening in music you get called shoegaze, or whatever, and then it becomes about the sound and not about the songs.

People out there said I was too small. It's those kinds of moments that pushed me to be where I'm at right now.

I didn't know anything about Opus Die except from pop culture, like Dan Brown novels, which I knew wasn't really knowing anything about Opus Die.