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.

Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent.

The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of the infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.

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

I have harnessed the shadows that stride from world to world to sow death and madness.

It is true that I have sent six bullets through the head of my best friend, and yet I hope to show by this statement that I am not his murderer.