I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity. - Edgar Allan Poe

"There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man."

"Even in the grave, all is not lost."

"The best things in life make you sweaty."

"From childhood's hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved alone."

"Sleep, those little slices of death — how I loathe them."