I neither knew nor cared whether my experience was insanity,... - H.P. Lovecraft

"I neither knew nor cared whether my experience was insanity, dreaming, or magic; but was determined to gaze on brilliance and gaiety at any cost."

"Religion is still useful among the herd - that it helps their orderly conduct as nothing else could. The crude human animal is in-eradicably superstitious, and there is every biological reason why they should be. Take away his Christian god and saints, and he will worship something else..."

"In search of Truth the hopeful zealot goes,But all the sadder tums, the more he knows!"

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

"All life is only a set of pictures in the brain, among which there is no difference betwixt those born of real things and those born of inward dreamings, and no cause to value the one above the other."