I am malicious because I am miserable

Invention consists in the capacity of seizing on the capabilities of a subject, and in the power of moulding and fashioning ideas suggested to it.

He is dead who called me into being, and when I shall be no more the very remembrance of us both will speedily vanish.

Solitude was my only consolation - deep, dark, deathlike solitude.

From my birth I have aspired like the eagle - but unlike the eagle, my wings have failed. . . . Congratulate me then that I have found a fitting scope for my powers.

I shall commit my thoughts to paper, it is true; but that is a poor medium for the communication of feeling. I desire the company of a man who could sympathize with me, whose eyes would reply to mine.

...learn from my miseries, and do not seek to increase your own.