You needn’t worry. I don’t think you have aged enough for me to partake of you. Blood, women, wine, and cheese all get better with the passage of time. You are not quite ripe. --Lane DeLuca

Not all vampires are created equal.

Aus Lügen, die wir glauben, werden Wahrheiten, mit denen wir leben.

Writing does not exist unless there is someone to read it, and each reader will take something different from a novel, from a chapter, from a line.

It is fatal to forget the past.

Nature is the art of God.

Usually with this genre the first thing that happens is a good fight sequence to show that you're in good hands. So we broke that rule. I think a lot of that comes from the western audience.

For the West, they wanted to undermine the Syrian positions. For the petrodollar countries like Saudi Arabia, they're thinking undermining Syria will undermine Iran on sectarian basis.

Science teaches you to open your eyes and appreciate the reality around you. Religion teaches you to close your eyes and cling to the fantasy within you.

I can't swim. I can't drive, either. I was going to learn to drive but then I thought, well, what if I crash into a lake?

The man that does not fear punishment, little regards crime.

Havenotness is caused by society's failure to design and produce the right tools and goods. Money alone is not the panacea.