What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world's beauty, is everything!

Creative minds are uneven, and the best of fabrics have their dull spots.

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

Maybe, just maybe, I should not have used the word "eldritch" so many times now that I think about it.

In search of Truth the hopeful zealot goes,But all the sadder tums, the more he knows!

I could not help feeling that they were evil things-- mountains of madness whose farther slopes looked out over some accursed ultimate abyss. That seething , half-luminous cloud-background held ineffable suggestions of a vague, ethereal beyondness far more than terrestrially spatial; and gave appalling reminders of the utter remoteness, separateness, desolation, and aeon-long death of this untrodden and unfathomed austral world.

I was nearly unnerved at my proximity to a nameless thing at the bottom of a pit.