Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane.

I could not help feeling that they were evil things -- mountains of madness whose farther slopes looked out over some accursed ultimate abyss.

That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die.

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

incurable lover of the grotesque

The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination.

Any magazine-cover hack can splash paint around wildly and call it a nightmare, or a witches sabbath or a portrait of the devil; but only a great painter can make such a thing really scare or ring true. That's because only a real artist knows the anatomy of the terrible, or the physiology of fear.