It is better to laugh at man from outside the universe, than to weep for him within.

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.

A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart who looks at her watch.

No one is expected to achieve the impossible.

The fires of suffering become the light of consciousness.

The computer saves man a lot of guesswork, but so does the bikini.

Most of our imports come from other countries

The Constitution that we have is an excellent one, if we can keep it where it is.

There are always a half-dozen things that make 80%of the difference. Only SIX things!

I'm a much healthier eater and I've lost quite a bit of weight over the years.

The one word above all others that makes marriage successful is 'ours.'

I have to change to stay the same.