What would a Mohammedan vampire do if faced with a cross?

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

What condemnation could possibly be more harsh than one’s own, when self-pretense is no longer possible?

Chris Nielsen: Thank you for every kindness. Thank you for our children. For the first time I saw them. Thank you for being someone I was always proud to be with. For your guts, for your sweetness. For how you always looked, for how I always wanted to touch you. God, you were my life. I apologize for everytime I ever failed you. Especially this one.

A surfeiting of terror soon made terror a cliché.

Really now, search your soul, lovie-is the vampire so bad? All he does is drink blood.

I think What Dreams May Come is the most important (read effective) book I've written. It has caused a number of readers to lose their fear of death the finest tribute any writer could receive. ... Somewhere In Time is my favorite novel.