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.

One will hate you for taking his life, another will run to excesses that you scorn. A third will emerge mad and raving, another a monster you cannot control. One will be jealous of your superiority, another shut you out... And the veil will always come down between you Make a legion, you will be, always and forever alone!

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

Handsome enough' is this Grim Reaper, Who can snuff all these 'brief candles,' every fluttering soul sucking the air, from this hall" -The Vampire Lestat

I do not read the ancient languages, but I am beginning to study Greek.

How shameful. How predictable! How insipid. And how sweet.

And I realized that I’d tolerated him this long because of self-doubt.