From Edgar Allen Poe (1809–1849) was an American poet, novelist, short story writer, essayist, playwright, editor, critic and a leading American Romanticist:
I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom.
