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

"Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability."

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

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

"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."

"At night, when the objective world has slunk back into its cavern and left dreamers to their own, there come inspirations and capabilities impossible at any less magical and quiet hour. No one knows whether or not he is a writer unless he has tried writing at night."