Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability. To trace the remote in the immediate; the eternal in the ephemeral; the past in the present; the infinite in the finite; these are to me the springs of delight and beauty.

An Epicure in the Terrible: A Centennial Anthology of Essays in Honor of H.P. Lovecraft (ed. Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 1991) - ISBN: 9780838634158