Edgar Allan Poe — "To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!"

"I call to mind flatness and dampness; and then all is madness - the madness of a memory which busies itself among forbidden things."

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

"I am a firm believer in the doctrine of original sin."

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

"A novelist, for example, need have no care of his moral. It is there -- that is to say, it is somewhere -- and the moral and the critics can take care of themselves. When the proper time arrives, all …"