We’re only five years apart, ” I said defiantly. “If you look at some of those dysfunctional vampyre relationships, we’re near normal.

–We are all dying– she told me. –Even something of the immortal will die–“What?”–Meaning–

The soul flies away from the body when God calls back it to the real place that starts life forever, indeed.

I guess you could say I'm allergic to sunlight. If I'm exposed to it, it could kill me.

Crowns and thrones are all bodies which rise and perish and leave the world as it is.

Eroticism, it may be said, is assenting to life up to the point of death

Keep an open heart. We are wired to find love.

Sometimes the best people to be around are not exactly like you - because if they were, what is the point? If they contribute something different than you can, that is when they are valuable.

The word 'art' is very slippery. It really has no importance in relation to one's work. I work for the pleasure, for the pleasure of the work, and everything else is a matter for the critics.

Learning is the property of those who fear to do disagreeable things.

You are my sweetest downfall.

We didn't know if ordinary lunatics or just unstable people on the ground could feel incited to harm me.