You can't murder a man who's been dead for five centuries.

Superstition? Who can define the boundary line between the superstition of yesterday and the scientific fact of tomorrow?

You can't murder a man who's been dead for five centuries.

To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death.

The strength of the vampire is that people will not believe in him.

God will not damn a lunatic's soul. He knows that the powers of evil are too great for those of us with weak minds.

Have you never wanted to do anything that was dangerous? Where should we be if no one tried to find out what lies beyond? Have you never wanted to look beyond the clouds and the stars, or to know what causes the trees to bud? And what changes the darkness into light? But if you talk like that, people call you crazy. Well, if I could discover just one of these things, what eternity is, for example, I wouldn't care if they did think I was crazy.