H. P. Lovecraft

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. 

If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences. 

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

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. 

The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind. 

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

Heaven knows where I'll end up - but it's a safe bet that I'll never be at the top of anything! Nor do I particularly care to be. 

I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams. 

I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me. 

Toil without song is like a weary journey without an end. 

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

The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination. 

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.