H. P. Lovecraft

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

It is only the inferior thinker who hastens to explain the singular and the complex by the primitive shortcut of supernaturalism.

...I have concluded that Literature is no proper pursuit for a gentleman; and that Writing ought never to be consider'd but as an elegant Accomplishment to be indulg'd in with infrequency, and Discrimination.

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

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

Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane.