In search of Truth the hopeful zealot goes,But all the sadder tums, the more he knows!
H. P. LovecraftI am, indeed, an absolute materialist so far as actual belief goes; with not a shred of credence in any form of supernaturalismโreligion, spiritualism, transcendentalism, metempsychosis, or immortality.
H. P. LovecraftThat's because only a real artist knows the actual anatomy of the terrible or the physiology of fear - the exact sort of lines and proportions that connect up with latent instincts or hereditary memories of fright, and the proper colour contrasts and lighting effects to stir the dormant sense of strangeness.
H. P. Lovecraft