Steven Wendell

“There was much of the beautiful, much of the wanton, much of the bizarre, something of the terrible, and not a little of that which might have excited disgust.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death

“I once sent a dozen of my friends a telegram saying 'flee at once - all is discovered.' They all left town immediately.”
― Mark Twain

“And the life of the ebony clock went out with that of the last of the gay. And the flames of the tripods expired. And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death

“I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.”
― Lord Byron