The dog is a peasant and the cat is a gentleman.

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.

THE BEST THING YOU CAN GIVE TO GOD AND HUMANITY IS YOURSELF.

Oh...why has time changed us?

An artist must have imagination. An artist who does not use his imagination is a mechanic.

What gets me about the United States is that it pretends to be honest and therefore has so little room to move toward hope.

The things that happen in the night are hidden even from the night.

In my personal life, I'm a comic novel. But then, so are we all, because we're human beings.

Yesterday influences today, thus creates tomorrow.

All was ended now, the hope, and the fear and the sorrow, All the aching of the heart, the restless, unsatisfied longing, All the dull, deep pain, and constant anguish of patience!

I wanted to protect him, which I was sure I could do, even if I could not protect myself.

I've always written songs with a visual counterpart in my mind that no one else can see.