Edgar Allan Poe — "All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream."

"From childhood's hour I have not been As others were—I have not seen As others saw—I could not bring My passions from a common spring."

"I do not suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it."

"I am a man of the world, and have seen much of its evil. I have also seen something of its good."

"Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether much that is glorious– whether all that is profound– does not spring from d…"

"I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down."