If the living are haunted by the dead, then the dead are haunted by their own mistakes.

Picture anybody growing up so stupid he didn't know that hope is just another phase you'll grow out of.

History is filled with brilliant people who wanted to fix things and just made them worse.

The difference between how you look and how you see yourself is enough to kill most people. And maybe the reason vampires don’t die is because they can never see themselves in photographs or mirrors.

A moment is all you can expect from perfection.

There are worse things than finding your wife and child dead. You can watch the world do it. You can watch your wife get old and bored. You can watch your kids discover everything in the world you've tried to save them from. Drugs, divorce, conformity, disease. All the nice clean books, music, television. Distraction.

The feeling is less like an ending than just another starting point.