Of all the weapons in the world, love is the most dangerous.

Elizabeth sheathed her sword, knelt behind him, and strangled him to death with his own large bowel.

My job on 'Dark Shadows' was to make it fun and funny, first and foremost. It can still be dark and it can still even be gory and gothic at times, but it also needed to be fun and it needed to be an experience that people would enjoy having.

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

But I am happy. And happiness, I have decided, is a noble ambition.

I decided that it was more important to laugh than to eat.

It was a sort of peace I have rarely enjoyed since. As if we were the only two souls on earth—all of nature ours to enjoy. I wondered why a creator who had dreamt such beauty would have slandered it with such evil. Such grief. Why He had not been content to leave it unspoilt. I still wonder.