Thank you...for gracing my life with your lovely presence, for adding the sweet measure of your soul to my existence.
Quiet is here and all in me. ("Dress of White Silk")
The vampire was real. It was only that his true story had never been told.
And, before science had caught up with the legend, the legend had swallowed science and everything.
A man could get used to anything if he had to.
I hate it when something I've had published "inspires" some nut to imitate what I've written, or some teacher gets fired for having her students read one of my stories or novels.