To me there is nothing that goes against nature. If it seems incomprehensible, its only because we havent been able to understand it yet.

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.

I had to write about realistic circumstances. Thats the way my brain works. And I think that gave me a sort of place in the field.

(After death.) So few people who come across, possess awareness of any kind. All they bring along with them are worthless values. All they desire is continuation of what they had in life no matter how misguided or degraded. . . Will those people ever progress, even with our help?

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

Robert Neville looked out over the new people of the earth. He knew he did not belong to them; he knew that, like the vampires, he was anathema and black terror to be destroyed. And, abruptly, the concept came, amusing to him even in his pain. ... Full circle. A new terror born in death, a new superstition entering the unassailable fortress of forever. I am legend.