Popebug said: he hated almost everything in general.
Naaah... he didn't. He was just a simple person with the same capacity for love and kindness like you and me. A very smart person with a very very acute perception of reality... and a very creepy upbringing.
He didn't even have a creepy upbringing, though a rather destitute one. He was just very pessimistic and had an incredibly active imagination, and he used those two traits to create some really cool stuff.
He was kind of ludicrously racist, mind, but he kind of chilled out with that in his later years (shows in his writings).