His Back was turned to the end of the world and the end of the world was quiet.

What I did was take the Jesus of the Gospels, the Son of God, the Son of the Virgin Mary, and sought to make Him utterly believable, a vital breathing character.

Pride is the parent of destruction; pride eats the mind and the heart and the soul alive.

I would die rather than live without you. I would die the same way he died. I can't bear you to look at me the way you did. I cannot bear it if you do not love me!" -Claudia.

You know nothing... And suppose the vampire who made you knew nothing, and the vampire who made that vampire knew nothing, and the vampire before him knew nothing, and so it goes back and back, nothing proceeding from nothing, until there is nothing! And we must live with the knowledge that there is no knowledge.

I love New Orleans physically. I love the trees and the balmy air and the beautiful days. I have a beautiful house here.

And I loved this moment for all it's pain...We seemed for a moment like two parts of the same thing.