Edgar Allan Poe — "The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls."

"I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind."

"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 boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?"

"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."

"I have been guilty of many follies, but I have never been guilty of a great crime."