Yes, I see that you are behaving like a prince but that doesn't mean you won't behave like a devil at the first opportunity.

My experiences thus far had me planning to throttle the first Tudor historian I met upon my return for gross dereliction of duty.

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed (Albert Einstein)

It was a brutal picture, a tug-of-war between two equal but opposing impulses. It had the ring of truth, however.

She was like a camera that had been chronically out of focus until someone came by and twisted the lenses into alignment.

I'd studied 16th century science and magic. I thought it was strange that people were interested in the same kinds of things my research was about. The more I thought about it, the more intriguing it became and pretty soon I was writing a novel about a reluctant witch and a 1500-year-old vampire.

These days vampires gravitated toward particle accelerators, projects to decode the genome, and molecular biology. Once they had flocked to alchemy, anatomy, and electricity. If it went bang, involved blood, or promised to unlock the secrets of the universe, there was sure to be a vampire around.