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.

Claudia... you've been a very very naughty little girl.

I don't believe in anything, Mother," I said. "You told Armand long ago that you believe you'll find answers in the great jungles and forests; that the stars will finally reveal a vast truth. But I don't believe in anything. And that makes me stronger than you think

Let the flesh instruct the mind.

I like mainly to be invisible, to sort of drift around unseen in the world.

For always in her there was a dark place full of despair and a great dividing force to make meaning because there was none.

He had never expected death to be this quiet, this secretive, this easy.