Quiet is here and all in me. ("Dress of White Silk")

After a while, though, even the deepest sorrow faltered, even the most penetrating despair lost its scalpel edge.

I don't believe terror and horror are just vicarious pleasures. I think it routes itself in your mind. It can affect your mind. Look at what's going on in the America today. The violence is just awful and I think a lot of has to do with what they are showing on the movies and television.

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

It is my conviction that basic Reality is not all that perplexing. What seems difficult to assimilate are the manifold details of Reality, not its fundamental elements.

Let the jagged edge of sobriety be now dulled.

As her analyst had told her: the deeper buried the distress, the further into the body it went. The digestive system was about as far as it could go to hide.