The NRA disgraced itself this morning with a self-serving press event in which they demonized the media and the entertainment industry for gun violence in America, and advocated a national data base for all mentally ill persons. They apparently want armed guards in all American schools, and it seems, armed volunteers as well. Shocking.

One moment the world is as it is. The next, it is something entirely different. Something it has never been before.

Memnoch the Devil happen to be my favorite of all The Vampire Chronicles.

Obviously, a writer can't know everything about what she writes. It's impossible.

Sometimes fear is a warning. It's like someone putting a hand on your shoulder and saying Go No Farther.

I lived like a man who wanted to die but who had no courage to do it himself.

-You are on the verge of being truly mad. -No, not at all. Look at me. I can tie my shoelaces. See?