To be godless is probably the first step to innocence," he said, "to lose the sense of sin and subordination, the false grief for things supposed to be lost." So by innocence you mean not an absence of experience, but an absence of illusions." An absence of need for illusions," he said. "A love of and respect for what is right before your eyes.

Handsome enough' is this Grim Reaper, Who can snuff all these 'brief candles,' every fluttering soul sucking the air, from this hall" -The Vampire Lestat

To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself.

Sometimes dreams show me that my writing should go deeper. Dreams have not so much changed my work as deepened it.

Motivated employees are crucial to a company's success.

Time can tick when there is no clock.

The human heart is my school.