To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!

I have not only labored solely for the benefit of others (receiving for myself a miserable pittance), but have been forced to model my thoughts at the will of men whose imbecility was evident to all but themselves

If you are ever drowned or hung, be sure and make a note of your sensations.

A short story is "a short prose narrative, requiring from a half hour, to one or two hours in its perusal...having conceived, with deliberate care, a certain unique or single effect to be wrought out.

I hold that a long poem does not exist. I maintain that the phrase, "a long poem," is simply a flat contradiction in terms.

And now have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but overacuteness of the senses?

The depth lies in the valleys where we seek her, and not upon the mountain-tops where she is found.