“Fear best lends itself to the creation of Nature-defying illusions.”

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

“Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness.”

“Creative minds are uneven, and the best of fabrics have their dull spots.”

“It is good to be a cynic — it is better to be a contented cat — and it is best not to exist at all.”

“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.”

“Sometimes I believe that this less material life is our truer life, and that our vain presence on the terraqueous globe is itself the secondary or merely virtual phenomenon.”