Vampire? Such a provocative word, wrapped in too many clichés and girly novels.

You reach a certain age -- sometimes it's fifteen, sometimes it's forty-six -- and you realize the cliche you have adopted for yourself isn't working.

Make sure, as often as possible, you are doing something you’d be happy to die doing.

And most of all, books. They were, in and of themselves, reasons to stay alive. Every book written is the product of a human mind in a particular state. Add all the books together and you get the end sum of humanity. Every time I read a great book I felt I was reading a kind of map, a treasure map, and the treasure I was being directed to was in actual fact myself.

The single biggest act of bravery or madness anyone can do is the act of change.

The possibility of pain is where love stems from

If you think something is ugly, look harder. Ugliness is just a failure of seeing.