20th August: H.P. Lovecraft

H.P. (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft, US sci fi writer, was born August 20 1890. 10 H.P. Lovecraft quotes:

1. What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world's beauty, is everything!
2. I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.
3. Toil without song is like a weary journey without an end.
4. The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination.
5. But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.
6. But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?
7. From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent.
8. Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane.
9. Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places.
10. The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.