What you cut out becomes part of the story you tell.

Every vampire fiction reinvents vampires to its own needs. You take what you want.

Okay, uh, I'm lost. I'm angry. And I'm armed.

My life has included a study of Shakespeare and to me it's very natural, but I know that it's not always accessible to other people.

We are, all of us, incoherent text, and just knowing that - knowing that no matter how much you say, 'I am this' and part of you is not that - means that you can say it.

Faith in God means believing absolutely in something with no proof whatsoever. Faith in humanity means believing absolutely in something with a huge amount of proof to the contrary. We are the true believers.

I'm totally cool. I'm totally calm, and I'm totally cool. My calm is exceeded only by my cool. Which is total. Here we go.