I'll tell you something of the forbidden horrors she led me into - something of the age-old horrors that even now are festering in out-of-the-way corners with a few monstrous priests to keep them alive. Some people know things about the universe that nobody ought to know, and can do things that nobody ought to be able to do.

I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.

Through all this horror my cat stalked unperturbed. Once I saw him monstrously perched atop a mountain of bones, and wondered at the secrets that might lie behind his yellow eyes.

I am, indeed, an absolute materialist so far as actual belief goes; with not a shred of credence in any form of supernaturalism—religion, spiritualism, transcendentalism, metempsychosis, or immortality.

The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.

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

And where Nyarlathotep went, rest vanished, for the small hours were rent with the screams of nightmare.