The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear.

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.

Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.

What better time to be kind to a beautiful stranger than when she’s weak, and rocking a schnoz like the Godfather?

My working and personal relationship with President Obama is marked by growing trust. I appreciate this.

Tolerance and freedom of thought are the veritable antidotes to religious fanaticism.

We are not free to break our covenants and escape the consequences.

Merely external emancipation has made of the modern woman an artificial being. Now, woman is confronted with the necessity of emancipating herself from emancipation, if she really desires to be free.

Because things grow. Wherever there is air and light and open space, things grow.

What you do for money you do badly.

When you have a chance to take the ball for the world champs, you take the ball.

I may have found the cure for cancer, and I think it might be Thom Yorke Serum.