I have to move away from organized religion. The toxic confusion and anger I was feeling in church had become too great.

For me, places have a tremendous impact. I fall in love with places. All of life seems different in different places.

First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success.

Memnoch the Devil happen to be my favorite of all The Vampire Chronicles.

When you find out there is no ultimate good and evil in which you can place your faith, the world does not fall apart at the seams. It simply means that every decision is more difficult, more critical, because you are creating the good and evil yourself and they are very real.

Words. Borne on the ever swelling current of hatred, like flowers opening in the current, petals peeling back, then falling apart.

I assume as a child Jesus had to learn how to do carpentry, learn Torah, learn all the things a human child had to learn. If He was human in all ways except that He did not sin, this must have been the case.