I gave up on the big screen. The Witching Hour was at Warner Bros. for 10 years and it just didn't work out.

Strong women are absolutely unpredictable.

There are so many books I mean to read, and things I mean to see.

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.

Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a very dangerous enemy indeed.

There's a virtue,' Felix said, 'to listening to a reluctant storyteller. You know that he is in fact diving deep for the salvageable truth.

An evil for these times destined to move through the world in handsome human guise.