I picture heaven as a vast library, with unlimited volumes to read. And paintings and statues to examine galore. I picture it as a great doorway to learning...rather than one great dull answer to all our questions

We have such a terrible, terrible misconception of science. We think it involves the definite, the precise, the known; it is a horrid series of gates to an unknown as vast of the universe; which means endless.

I congratulate myself on not having arrived into the world until the present time. This age suits my taste.

Don't you see? It is a new age. It requires a new evil. And I am that new evil.

DO I BELIEVE THAT PEOPLE ARE BASICALLY GOOD? Yes, I do believe that, and I trust Buddhists and Hindus and Moslems to seek the good and to want to live in peace.

Heaven would be Hell in no time if every cruel, selfish, vicious soul went to Heaven.

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.