One tiny flame could make so many other flames; one tiny flame could set afire a whole world.

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.

It draws it's strength, this big secret, from the same root from which I draw my strength, both the good and the bad, because in the end, they cannot be separated.

I want to love all the children of God - Christian, Jew, Moslem, Hindu, Buddhist - everyone. I want to love gay Christians and straight Christians.

I'm hoping what all sentient beings hope ... that somehow I'm part of something larger than myself, in which I play a role, an actual role that is somehow intended and meaningful.

Who knew that better than I, who had presided over the death of my own body, seeing all I called human wither and die only to form an unbreakable chain which held me fast to this world yet made me forever its exile, a specter with a beating heart?

I can't get very far away from Christianity, I can't get very far away from the angels and the saints. I work them in always, in some way.