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

“I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men.”

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

“Religion is still useful among the herd - that it helps their orderly conduct as nothing else could."

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

“Ultimate horror often paralyses memory in a merciful way.”

“We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.”