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

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents... some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new Dark Age.

The end is near. I hear a noise at the door, as of some immense slippery body lumbering against it. It shall not find me. God, that hand! The window! The window!

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

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

Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time.

It is true that I have sent six bullets through the head of my best friend, and yet I hope to show by this statement that I am not his murderer.