"I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams."
Ещё одна причина, по которой можно смело утверждать, что Лавкрафт (если он действительно автор высказывания, во что я охотно верю) - один из прекраснейших писателей, когда-либо живших на Земле. К тому же, его остальные популярные высказывания тоже замечательные и такие родные:
"I am so beastly tired of mankind and the world that nothing can interest me unless it contains a couple of murders on each page or deals with the horrors unnameable and unaccountable that leer down from the external universes."
"Heaven knows where I'll end up - but it's a safe bet that I'll never be at the top of anything! Nor do I particularly care to be."
"The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind."
"Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane." - мне это смешно по совершенно особой причине
"I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess."
"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."
"Contrary to what you may assume, I am not a pessimist but an indifferentist - that is, I don't make the mistake of thinking that the... cosmos... gives a damn one way or the the other about the especial wants and ultimate welfare of mosquitoes, rats, lice, dogs, men, horses, pterodactyls, trees, fungi, dodos, or other forms of biological energy."