When I'm writing, especially when I'm writing in first person, I don't think about the characterization, or how they are going to express themselves, I just express my own approach to these things. I think most writers can never divorce themselves from their private lives and personas; they are the ones that are writing. And the more they remove themselves from their own persona, the more, perhaps, mechanical the work becomes.

The vampire was real. It was only that his true story had never been told.

There we will, I pray, remain and learn and grow until the time when we will rise together to the ultimate heights, changing in appearance but never in devotion, sharing the transcendent glory of our love through all eternity.

How quickly one accepts the incredible if only one sees it enough.

No longer will you be a weird Robinson Crusoe, imprisoned on an island of night surrounded by oceans of death.

In a world of monotonous horror there could be no salvation in wild dreaming.

And, before science had caught up with the legend, the legend had swallowed science and everything.