What do you do with a master vampire that won't leave you alone? Good question. Unfortunately, what I needed was a good answer.

People are supposed to fear the unknown, but ignorance is bliss when knowledge is so damn frightening.

Stupidity isn't punishable by death. If it was, there would be a hell of a population drop.

Death didn't bother me much. Strong Christian and all that. Method of death did. Being eaten alive. One of my top three ways not to go out.

His eyes widened just a bit, his lips flexed. I realized he was trying not to laugh. I hate it when people find my threats amusing.

He'd kill you all right. No sweat. But for the wrong reasons. Amateur's reasons. Of course, you'll be just as dead.

The sunken grave would fade away, probably in my lifetime. If I could avoid killer zombies for a few years. And vampires. And gun-toting humans. Oh, hell, the hot-spot would probably outlast me.

He loved Shevek, but he could not show him what freedom is, that recognition of each person's solitude which alone transcends it.

One evening, after a particularly terrible row, the prince smashed his princess over the head with an old wooden clock and she tumbled to the floor, dead.

After a tragic incident you never remain the same. You pick up the pieces and emerge as a stronger, better version of yourself.

My generation is under-entertained.

I could have been a Rhodes Scholar, except for my grades.

Worry is wasteful and useless in times like these.

People from outer space they come up to me, they don't look like Doctor Spock, they don't look like Klingons, all that Star Trek jive. They look like Elvis.

Some other things I don't miss: the media and the pressure of just being asked to do, and being asked questions every day.

A lady is smarter than a gentleman, maybe, she can sew a fine seam, she can have a baby, she can use her intuition instead of her brain, but she can't fold a paper in a crowded train.

I dress up with a conscience when I think you'll be watching. I say all the right things, I don't know what I mean.