It is absolutely necessary, for the peace and safety of mankind, that some of earth's dark, dead corners and unplumbed depths be left alone; lest sleeping abnormalities wake to resurgent life, and blasphemously surviving nightmares squirm and splash out of their black lairs to newer and wider conquests.

For although nepenthe has calmed me, I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men. This I have known ever since I stretched out my fingers to the abomination within that great gilded frame; stretched out my fingers and touched a cold and unyielding surface of polished glass.

There be those who say that things and places have souls, and there be those who say they have not; I dare not say, myself, but I will tell of The Street.

For I have always been a seeker, a dreamer, and a ponderer on seeking and dreaming.

I have harnessed the shadows that stride from world to world to sow death and madness.

The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown

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