What does it mean to die when you can live until the end of the world?

Advice to a new writer: There are no rules in this profession. Do what is good for you. Read books and watch films that stimulate your writing. In your writing, go where the pain is; go where the pleasure is; go where the excitement is. Believe in your own original approach, voice, characters, story. Ignore critics. Have nerve. Be stubborn.

The vampires have always been metaphors for me. They've always been vehicles through which I can express things I have felt very, very deeply.

All the mortal world is a lethal enemy during those hours between dawn and dusk.

As if it were our very birthright, which we could not come to grasp the meaning of until this time of middle life when we looked on only as many years ahead as already lay behind us.

The prince is never going to come. Everyone knows that; and maybe sleeping beauty's dead.

Then, are you master of us all? You didn't teach her that. Was she supposed to imbibe it from my quiet subservience?