Nothing is the whole story. The self’s curse – and the writer’s.

It’s why we close the eyes, too. The dead shouldn’t have to look on the lewd aliveness of the living.

The lies you tell yourself. The necessary lies.

All vampires smoke. Smoking’s high on the list of Things You Take Up To Pass The Time.

It’s Big Brother with werewolves. Live coverage for a month, leading up to a group kill on full moon.

... vampire ruler Hin Kahur implemented howler aversion therapy.

Comedy, of course, lives for serious moments.

Why do people who read Shakespeare still spend hours watching shitty TV or staring out of the window or arguing about whose dinner party to go to?

If you had a lot of money and you were miserable, you’d be miserable poor.

Satan] invades the Sunday school, the Bible class, and even the pulpit. He even invades the church under cover of an orthodox vocabulary, emptying sacred terms of their biblical sense.

The all-seeing eye of God beheld our deplorable state infinite pity touched the heart of the Father of mercies and infinite wisdom laid the plan of our recovery.

The truly and deliberately evil men are a very small minority; it is the appeaser who unleashes them on mankind.

The Lord who cannot endure vain repetitions is equally weary of vain variations.

People don't come to Asheville very often, and they don't know I'm there. I enjoy it. I like it.

A work of art doesn't have to be explained.

When spiritual, metaphysical, material, or immaterial events come into my life, I can only fix them by way of painting.

I used to say that I wanted someone cute and nice, an actor too, so he'd get it. But now I think it would be good for me to date someone who's not in the business.

If you want to soar like an eagle in life, you can't be flocking with the turkeys.

Ingeniously, capitalism discovered that the economy may be moved not by satisfying existing needs, but by creating new ones.