Vigorous let us be in attaining our ends, and mild in our method of attainment.

When Randolph Carter was thirty he lost the key of the gate of dreams.

The cat is cryptic, and close to strange things which men cannot see.

I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to make him really know what he's talking about.

The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

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.

Life has never interested me so much as the escape from life.