Happiness is like the first blissful intoxication of morphine.It doesn't last very long.

In point of fact I was a perfectly devoted and dutiful little Catholic—until the day I learned that animals have no souls.

I had reached up and pulled the castle of dreams down around him.

Happiness is like the first blissful intoxication of morphine.It doesn't last very long.

I have often thought I would have been quite happy as a spider.Even a spider has the right to a mate.

She wanted an Angel of Music . . . an angel who would make her believe in herself at last. I'd been the Angel of Doom for the khanum. There was no reason in the world why I could not be the Angel of Music for Christine. I couldn't hope to be a man to her, I couldn't ever be a real, breathing, living man waking at her side and reaching out for her . . . But I could be her angel' -Erik

Death was the ultimate power and I his eager, willing apprentice.