There comes a time for everybody when words and reasons can become such a great weariness.

As to blood—ah, blood, the whole subject fascinates me. I do like that as well, warm and dripping, when I am thirsty. And I am often thirsty.

I am a vampire, and that is the truth.

They are so busy, Julia, trying to help the world that they've forgotten how to help themselves. They've forgotten how to be happy, and it is a happy man or woman who helps the world most.

I would look up at the moon and see that it was not the smooth orb we had all believed, but a pitted and scarred world with no air.

For feeling, not events, is to me the essence of history.

The physics are simple in theory, but in practice they are filled with the possibility for limitless error.