Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark TwainTo me [Edgar Allen Poe's] prose is unreadableโlike Jane Austin's [sic]. No there is a difference. I could read his prose on salary, but not Jane's. Jane is entirely impossible. It seems a great pity that they allowed her to die a natural death.
Mark Twain