Obviously, a writer can't know everything about what she writes. It's impossible.

Yes, I know," "And I love to hear you say it, Louis. I need to hear you say it. I don't think anyone will ever say it quite like you do. Come on, say it again. I'm a perfect devil. Tell me how bad I am. It makes me feel so good!

I know nothing, because I know too much, and understand not nearly enough and never will.

Aren't there gradations of evil? Is evil a great perilous gulf into which one falls with the first sin, plummeting to the depth?

First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success.

The greatest create of power you have on earth, whether you are an angel, a spirit, a man or woman or child is to help others.

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.