No matter how rudely someone treats you, remain kind. Walking away at peace with yourself is worth it.

You were the vampire in my dream. My perfect one.

I know nothing, because I know too much, and understand not nearly enough and never will.

When you think night and day and every moment only of pleasing me, things will be very easy for you.

I know Christianity; and I know I have to move away from it and approach Jesus Christ on my own. I have to talk to Him directly and seek His guidance and protection as I seek to make my commitment to Him central to my life.

All the stories I have told you are finally as useless as all ancient knowledge is to man and to us. Its images and its poetry can be beautiful; it can make us shiver with the recognition of things we have always suspected or felt. It can draw us back to times when the earth was new to man, and wondrous. But always we come back to the way the earth is now.

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.