The worst takes its time to come, and then to pass.

Nothing in all the world is so nonsensical and contradictory, save mortals, that is, who live in the grip of the superstitions of the past.

It's an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater lustre to our colours, a richer resonance to our words. That is, if it doesn't destroy us, if it doesn't burn away the optimism and the spirit, the capacity for visions, and the respect for simple yet indispensable things.

I gave up on the big screen. The Witching Hour was at Warner Bros. for 10 years and it just didn't work out.

as they die, the ones we love, we lose our witnesses, our watchers, those who know and understand the tiny little meaningless patterns, those words drawn in water with a stick. And there is nothing left but the endless flow.

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.

We have to become saints. We have to become like Christ. Anything less is simply not enough.