That morning I was not yet a vampire, and I saw my last sunrise. I remember it completely, and yet I can't recall any sunrise before it. I watched the whole magnificence of the dawn for the last time as if it were the first. And then I said farewell to sunlight, and set out to become what I became.

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

The atheism and nihilism of my earlier years now seems shallow, and even a bit cocky.

Thank God he killed the guy. Oh, now, wait a minute. What kind of a prayer was that!

Cities have distinct personalities. It's a matter of knowing it.

-You are on the verge of being truly mad. -No, not at all. Look at me. I can tie my shoelaces. See?

The fact that I loved you was the greatest lie I have ever lived.