No new horror can be more terrible than the daily torture of the commonplace.

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!

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

A word only writes Its night and ridesIts dream.

Sun is bad for you. Everything our parents said was good is bad. Sun, milk, red meat...college,

There's a law in life: whenever a door closes, a new one will open.

I don't even like parties.

Every year, at 8:00 PM on the second Saturday of July, hundreds of people gather along a section of Los Angeles rail track to drop their pants and moon passing passenger trains.

All I really want to do is entertain people out there sitting in the dark and for them to believe it.

If I were a maker of books I should compile a register, with comments, of different deaths. He who should teach people to die, would teach them to live.

Do not pretend - be. Do not promise - act. Do not dream - realize.

If you are not offending people who ought to be offended, you're doing something wrong.

I am so impressed with people who can really make a big movie, a good movie. The amount of work that goes into it is incredible.