The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.

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.

Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed.

It’s one of my theories that when people give you advice, they’re really just talking to themselves in the past.

I want to believe there's a God. Because I sure as hell know there's a devil.

Women who marry early are often overly enamored of the kind of man who looks great in wedding pictures and passes the maid of honor his telephone number.

I studied English literature; I took 2 independent religion classes, but I wasn't a religion major really.

First, we did rank everybody by risk, and New York comes out number one.

Don't make assumptions. Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want.

The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.

Every flower of the field, every fiber of a plant, every particle of an insect carries with it the impress of its Maker and can-if duly considered-read us lectures of ethics or divinity.

The Lord made Adam, the Lord made Eve, he made 'em both a little bit naive.