…Those who’ve marred their appearance in any way by their actions in life aren’t forced to witness that marring. If they were, they’d become self-conscious and be unable to concentrate on improving themselves.

When you sleep, your dream world is as real to you as life, isn’t it?

God, how impossible life is without money. Nothing can ever overcome it, it's everything when it's anything. How can I write in peace with endless worries of money, money, money? (“Disappearing Act”)

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.

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

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

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