When I'm writing, the darkness is always there. I go where the pain is.

Being liberated means reading what you want to read, and fantasizing about what you want to fantasize about.

I am the Vampire Lestat. I'm immortal more or less. The light of the sun, the sustained heat of an intense fire-these things might destroy me. But then again, they might not.

We’re going to die and not even know. We’ll never know, and all this meaninglessness will just go on and on and on. And we won’t any longer be witnesses to it. We won’t have even that little bit of power to give meaning to it in our minds. We’ll just be gone, dead, dead, dead, without ever knowing!

Dickens is a very underrated writer at the moment. Everyone in his time admired him but I think right now he's not spoken of enough.

We breathe the light, we breathe the music, we breathe the moment as it passes through us.

... what I fear in writing is the safe decision.