Edgar Allan Poe — "Mr. Mumblethumb"

"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…"

"A wise man hears one word and understands two."

"Never to suffer would never to have been blessed."

"All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream."

"I have a profound conviction that the world is a species of gigantic jest—a jest of the most elaborate and stupendous—of the most complicated and august—and of the most utterly incomprehensible charac…"