Most of us live in artificial environments and then we go to work in artificial environments and the world becomes something that you see through a window.

We live in a patriarchal culture. It's okay for women to be objectified but not for men.

Life is too mysterious to try to map it out. I've certainly lived long enough to know it will take you places you never thought it would take you - and some of those places are kind of wonderful.

I'm a huge freak, and always have been. I spent the first part of my life trying really desperately not to be one, and it was just a waste of time.

It's easy to look at the vampires as a metaphor for any feared or misunderstood group. It's also easy to look at them as a metaphor for a shadow organization that says one thing and has a completely different agenda on their mind, and anybody who gets in their way, they just get rid of them. Does that sound familiar?

The important thing is that he shook hands with us over the phone.

I believe forgiveness is possible for everybody, for everything, but I'm a Buddhist.