Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places.

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

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.

Man is an essentially superstitious and fearful animal. Take away the herd's Christian gods and saints and they will without failing come to worship...something else.

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

It is an unfortunate fact that every man who seeks to disseminate knowledge must contend not only against ignorance itself, but against false instruction as well. No sooner do we deem ourselves free from a particularly gross superstition, than we are confronted by some enemy to learning who would set aside all the intellectual progress of years, and plunge us back into the darkness of mediaeval disbelief.

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!