Edgar Allan Poe

I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.

I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.

The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.

I'm not afraid of wanting money at all. Money will give me more power to do things that are truer to my spirit than what I'm already doing.

Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it.

The weird thing about grief, for me at least, was when each of my parents died, for a year or two afterwards I was pretty wildly brave - just willing to take life on.