Of what use is it to please the herd? They are simply coarse animals - for all that is admirable in man is the artificial product of special breeding.

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 think we should throw money at artists, not at girls who take their clothes off because they made a bad choice in life.

Magda was reading a book by a Trappist, in a better mood, and I was sitting on the edge of the bed, fingering my useless map.

There may be aliens in our Milky Way galaxy, and there are billions of other galaxies. The probability is almost certain that there is life somewhere in space.

Women are the glue that holds our day-to-day world together.

My recommendation is a compelling urgency for decentralisation. There is a necessity to decentralise the Police. We are under policed.

The advice that I wish I would have given myself is to not care about what other people are thinking.

If you are having fun on the set, you are not getting things done.

I have an excuse to show off my love of history, and my interest in cosmology.

Faith, indeed, is all the reform that is needed; it is itself a reform.

Scars are stories, history written on the body