Edgar Allan Poe — "A wise man hears one word and understands two."

"I have a very strong opinion that the world is a stage, and all the men and women merely players."

"The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls."

"In the ludicrous heightened into the grotesque; the fearful coloured into the horrible; the witty exaggerated into the burlesque; the singular wrought out into the strange and mystical. You may say al…"

"It is with literature as with law or empire – an established name is an estate in tenure, or a throne in possession."

"It is more than probable that I am not understood; but I fear, indeed, that it is in no manner possible to convey to the mind of the merely general reader, an adequate idea of that nervous intensity o…"