I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least before the effects of the poison began to be felt.

I also remembered that you were beautiful." "Memory does play tricks on us." "No. Your face is the same, but I don't remember what beautiful means anymore.

The society whose citizens are willing to stand and fight is the one with the best chance of surviving long enough for history to even notice.

Today, Mr. Darcy is a vampire.

Human beings may be miserable specimens, in the main, but we can learn, and, through learning, become decent people.

Surely you're not saying that God had to choose between long life and intelligence for human beings! It's there in your own Bible, Carlotta. Two trees - knowledge and life. You eat of the tree of knowledge and you will surely die. You eat of the tree of life and you remain a child in the garden forever, undying.

I carry the seeds of death within me and plant them wherever I linger long enough to love.