Be kind. Always if you have a choice, be kind.

I think all of us ordinary mortals tend to mythologize people as good-looking as you.

So we reach into the raging chaos, and we cling to it, and we tell ourselves it has meaning, and that the world is good, and we are not evil, and we will all go home in the end.

I assume as a child Jesus had to learn how to do carpentry, learn Torah, learn all the things a human child had to learn. If He was human in all ways except that He did not sin, this must have been the case.

There are too many other inexplicable things around us--horrors, threats, mysteries that draw you in and then inevitably disenchant you. Back to the predictable and humdrum. The prince is never going to come, everybody knows that; and maybe Sleeping Beauty's dead.

The most difficult novel I have had to write in terms of just getting it done was The Vampire Lestat. It took a year to write.

When you make his sandwiches, put a sexy or loving note in his lunch box.