The fans, the vampire groupies, love the idea of this androgynous, preternatural figure stalking the night, and craving aesthetic pleasure just as he craves blood, wearing only the best velvet clothes, and savoring red roses.

If you want to be a writer, write. Write and write and write. If you stop, start again. Save everything that you write. If you feel blocked, write through it until you feel your creative juices flowing again. Write. Writing is what makes a writer, nothing more and nothing less.

Being liberated means reading what you want to read, and fantasizing about what you want to fantasize about.

Motivated employees are crucial to a company's success.

God, what is it like to be You and hear all those people all the time everywhere, begging, imploring, calling out for anything and anyone?

I don't believe in anything and that makes me stronger than you think

Writers write about what obsesses them. You draw those cards. I lost my mother when I was 14. My daughter died at the age of 6. I lost my faith as a Catholic. When I'm writing, the darkness is always there. I go where the pain is.