The darkness always teemed with unexplained sound - and yet he sometimes shook with fear lest the noises he heard subside and allow him to hear certain other fainter noises which he suspected were lurking behind them.

The basis of all true cosmic horror is violation of the order of nature, and the profoundest violations are always the least concrete and describable.

If I am mad, it is mercy! May the gods pity the man who in his callousness can remain sane to the hideous end!

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

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

But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.

Heaven knows where I'll end up - but it's a safe bet that I'll never be at the top of anything! Nor do I particularly care to be.