Edgar Allan Poe — "Never to suffer would never to have been blessed."

"The ‛Imp of the Perverse’ is a radical, a primitive impulse—elementary, and altogether indissoluble."

"To be good, a double entendre should be at least good English when viewed on either side. Now we may lay by a piece of money — but we lie by a wife."

"The value of a conundrum is in exact proportion to the extent of its demerit, and that it is only positively good when it is outrageously and scandalously absurd."

"The greatest crimes are not those committed for profit, but those committed for love."

"Why ought the author of the 'Grotesque and Arabesque' to be a good writer of verses? Because he's a poet to a t. Add t to Poe makes it Poet."