Handsome enough' is this Grim Reaper, Who can snuff all these 'brief candles,' every fluttering soul sucking the air, from this hall" -The Vampire Lestat

Whipping is fifty percent show and noise.

I never knew what life was until it ran out in a red gush over any lips, my hands!

I can't get very far away from Christianity, I can't get very far away from the angels and the saints. I work them in always, in some way.

How can so much beauty hide such a bruised and steely heart, and why must I love him, why must I lean in my weariness upon his irresistible yet indomitable strength? Is he not the wizend funeral spirit of a dead man in a child's clothes?

I do want to go another way - to write something completely different.

I thought The Shining was just absolutely wonderful. Stephen King reaches all kinds of people. In the beginning he was just dismissed out of hand, which was terrible.