The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

At night, when the objective world has slunk back into its cavern and left dreamers to their own, there come inspirations and capabilities impossible at any less magical and quiet hour. No one knows whether or not he is a writer unless he has tried writing at night.

Sometimes one feels that it would be merciful to tear down these houses, for they must often dream.

Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability. To trace the remote in the immediate; the eternal in the ephemeral; the past in the present; the infinite in the finite; these are to me the springs of delight and beauty.

The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

It is good to be a cynic - it is better to be a contented cat - and it is best not to exist at all.

When Randolph Carter was thirty he lost the key of the gate of dreams.