The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear.

With five feeble senses we pretend to comprehend the boundlessly complex cosmos, yet other beings with wider, stronger, or different range of senses might not only see very differently the things we see, but might see and study whole worlds of matter, energy, and life which lie close at hand yet can never be detected with the senses we have.

Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time.

No new horror can be more terrible than the daily torture of the commonplace.

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.

I have seen the dark universe yawning Where the black planets roll without aim, Where they roll in their horror unheeded, Without knowledge, or lustre, or name.

There be those who say that things and places have souls, and there be those who say they have not; I dare not say, myself, but I will tell of The Street.