Edgar Allan Poe — "I am a writer. Therefore, I am not sane."

"The universe is a sphere whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere."

"I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human integrity has been ruined by the fall, and that I am a member of the ruined species."

"The 99th part of literature is absolute rubbish. The one hundredth part is not so bad. The one hundredth part of that is worth reading."

"The truth is, I am heartily sick of this life & of the nineteenth century in general. (I am convinced that every thing is going wrong)."

"The best things in life are free. The second best are very expensive."