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

I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess.

We shall see that at which dogs howl in the dark, and that at which cats prick up their ears after midnight.

Now all my tales are based on the fundemental premise that common human laws and interests and emotions have no validity or significance in the vast cosmos-at-large.... To achieve the essence of real externality, whether of time or space or dimension, one must forget that such things as organic life, good and evil, love and hate, and all such local attributes of a negligible and temporary race called mankind, have any existence at all.

Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed in crime, perversion, and insanity.

Nyarlathotep . . . the crawling chaos . . . I am the last . . . I will tell the audient void. . . .

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