Race prejudice is a gift of nature, intended to preserve in purity the various divisions of mankind which the ages have evolved.

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.

You got the eggs in you

How can you be kissing at a time like this? Have you no respect for the dead?

There was cruelty in silence, and isolation made it worse.

Every love story is a ghost story.

May you have plenty of wealth, you men of Ephesus, in order that you may be punished for your evil ways

Animals were my passion from even before I could speak apparently. When I was about 10, 11 I fell in love with Tarzan.

there is in this world no line so bad that someone won't someday copy it.

Be yourself. It's the most important part of anything that you do. It's not fashion. It can be whatever you want to do.

Why does Ian think I have to kiss you?

I could probably spend the next five years reworking an album from ten years ago, if given the chance, to make it better - make it best, so to speak.