I do not suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it.

Although widely circulated under Edgar Allan Poe’s name, this line is best treated as a modern, humorous aphorism rather than a documented Poe quotation. Its wit depends on flipping the expected stance toward “insanity”: instead of presenting it as an affliction (“suffer”), the speaker claims agency and pleasure (“enjoy every minute”). Read as a piece of dark comedy, it performs a self-mocking embrace of eccentricity and outsider identity, turning stigma into swagger. The joke also echoes a familiar Gothic trope—delight in transgression or abnormality—but without a verifiable textual anchor in Poe, it functions more as pop-cultural “Poe-like” sentiment than as evidence of his views.