I thought The Shining was just absolutely wonderful. Stephen King reaches all kinds of people. In the beginning he was just dismissed out of hand, which was terrible.

It's an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater lustre to our colours, a richer resonance to our words.

The greatest create of power you have on earth, whether you are an angel, a spirit, a man or woman or child is to help others.

The fans, the vampire groupies, love the idea of this androgynous, preternatural figure stalking the night, and craving aesthetic pleasure just as he craves blood, wearing only the best velvet clothes, and savoring red roses.

I like to read things I've read before. It's like listening over and over to your favorite song.

We are predators, whose all-seeing eyes were meant to give them detachment.

I can’t help being a gorgeous fiend. It’s just the card I drew.