“There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion. Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, these are matters of which no jest can be made.”

Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death

“Feelings! I have no time for them, no chance of them.”

Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

“I have learned that neither kindness nor cruelty by themselves, independent of each other, creates any effect beyond themselves; and I have learned that the two combined, together, at the same time, are the teaching emotion.”

Edward Albee, The Zoo Story