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.

I think all writers are armchair psychologists to some degree or another, and I think a character's sexuality is fascinating. It's a great way to really get at the root of their identity, because it's such a personal thing.

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

My own belief is that people can come back from anything. It doesn't mean that it won't come at a huge cost.

In my own life, I think legends of supernatural, mythic things are really just a manifestation of the collective unconscious. So I don't really get freaked out. I mean certainly, you read about things people did to each other in the pursuit of some mystical or occult goal, and it's horrifying. But that's just human nature.

I'm 53. I don't care about high school students. I find them irritating and uninformed.

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?