The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.

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.

Politics is the most important of the civil activities and has its own field of action, which is not that of religion.

Everyone must become their own person, however frightful that may be.

The greatest inheritance that a man hath is the liberty of his person, for all others are accessory to it.

In life sometimes, in the universe, you have to close some doors to have others open.

This is the darkest hour before dawn and we should never underestimate monetary authorities' ability to deal with the adversity.

I guarantee you it will not be anyone from the outside.

When the shadow of the Presidential and Congressional election is lifted we shall, I hope to be in a better temper to legislate.

A mother is a story with no beginning. That is what defines her.

You have to understand that crew members make movies so they're seeing a lot of actors all the time in their career acting.

I like to photograph democratically.