I was good and bad, but never wicked.

Then, are you master of us all? You didn't teach her that. Was she supposed to imbibe it from my quiet subservience?

No one is safe from nature's savagery,not even the innocent. Only beauty is consistent. Gabrielle envisions a time when the Savage Garden will overtake civilizations and destroy it.

The vampires have always been metaphors for me. They've always been vehicles through which I can express things I have felt very, very deeply.

There is one purpose to life and one only: to bear witness to and understand as much as possible of the complexity of the world -- its beauty, its mysteries, its riddles. The more you understand, the more you look, the greater is your enjoyment of life and your sense of peace. That's all there is to it. Everything else is fun and games. If an activity is not grounded in "to love" or "to learn" it does not have value.

I enjoy the Web site a lot and I like being able to talk to my readers. I've always had a very close relationship with them.

I assume I don't need an introduction.