That which we call substance and reality is shadow and illusion, and that which we call shadow and illusion is substance and reality.

Yog-Sothoth knows the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the key and guardian of the gate. Past, present, future, all are one in Yog-Sothoth.

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.

Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent.

No new horror can be more terrible than the daily torture of the commonplace.

To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.

Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane.