Vigorous let us be in attaining our ends, and mild in our method of attainment.

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.

Time kills essence! Don’t give people reasons to say you wasted your time! Use your time well now!

Discouragement leads away from the right path, and accomplishes the devil’s desire for destruction

You can only get to where you want to be, through where you are now.

Not ignorance but ignorance of ignorance is the death of knowledge.

When your dreams becoming reality, they're no longer your dreams.

You start chasing a ball and your brain immediately commands your body to 'Run forward, bend, scoop up the ball, peg it to the infield,' then your body says, 'Who me?'

[I normally go-to] whiskey on the rocks. Or a beer. Or with dinner, a glass of white wine.

Style is an expression of your individuality. Who you are and what your mood is, is what you wear.

The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.

Being efficient without regard to effectiveness is the default mode of the universe.