I already fear for my life just because of who I am, you think adding a little inconsequential vampire to the equation will change any of that?

Doubts in your mind are a much greater roadblock to success than obstacles on the journey.

I am like some wounded animal in a darkened lair, nursing the thorn in my paw, unable to find anyone to take it out.

Facts you can bend. Memories are much stronger things.

CRM is rather boring in itself. It's the fortune you can make using CRM that makes it so interesting.

Freedom is not an end. Freedom is a beginning.

I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations.

I don't think I came out of anybody. I think I developed out of the influences I described in My Dark Places. American history, L.A. of the 1950s. I'm comfortable with that.

I have a weird life because I live on songwriting royalties, which are a strange income. Sometimes it rains, sometimes it doesn't.

The mind is the soul's eye, not its source of power. That lies in the heart, in other words, in the passions.

I felt probably more uncomfortable than Beyonce. But I can't answer for her.