It's exciting and it's thrilling and it's not particularly threatening, because they're not overtly sexual. A lot of the physical side of it is conveyed in things like the vampire will touch her forearm or run a hand over skin, and she just flushes all hot and cold. And for girls, that's a shorthand for all the feelings that they're not ready to deal with yet.

We don't know the days that will change our lives. Probably just as well.

As a kid, death seemed boring to me. As an adult, I think that it seems more like a waste of everything. Somebody once said every time a professor dies, a library burns.

My view is that organized religion is a very dangerous tool that's been misused by a lot of people.

I believe most people are essentially good. I know that I am. It's you I'm not entirely sure of.

And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you've said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it.

For me, good description usually consists of a few well-chosen details that will stand for everything else.