There were nameless horrors abroad; and no matter how little one might be able to get at them, one ought tp stand prepared for any sort of action at any time.

It was from the artists and poets that the pertinent answers came, and I know that panic would have broken loose had they been able to compare notes.

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.

Something like fear chilled me as I sat there in the small hours alone-I say alone, for one who sits by a sleeper is indeed alone; perhaps more alone than he can realise.

That which we call substance and reality is shadow and illusion, and that which we call shadow and illusion is substance and reality.

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.

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!