Protect your voice and your vision. If going on the Internet and reading Internet reviews is bad for you, don’t do it. … Do what gets you to write and not what blocks you. … Don’t take any guff off anybody.

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 broke with my religion in college.

And what constitutes evil, real evil, is the taking of a single human life. Whether a man would die tomorrow or the day after or eventually... it doesn't matter. Because if God does not exist, then life... every second of it... Is all we have.

I think love can save the world. When we love, we completely recognize the value of the other.

To learn and to love, that is what we are here for, any activity which is not grounded in one of these two is a waste of time.

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