If a novelist has created vivid characters, interesting relationships, settings the reader can easily imagine, and intriguing stories, a screenwriter has loads to work with. The challenge comes with deciding what to cut and what to keep.

Surely life has taught you that a thing can be both beautiful and vile.

I hereby resolve to kill every vampire in America.

We may all deserve hell, but some of us deserve it sooner than others.

However, it has long been said that "my enemy's enemy is my friend.

Your quarrel is with God. I merely wish to offer Him the opportunity to judge you.

The more precious His gift, the more anxious God for its return.