Inside every sane person there’s a madman struggling to get out.

People who didn't need people needed people around to know that they were the kind of people who didn't need people.

All was black, gloomy and awful. There was no light at the end of the tunnel - or if there was, it was an oncoming train.

The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind words that have changed their meaning.

You did something because it had always been done, and the explanation was, ‘But we’ve always done it this way.’ A million dead people can’t have been wrong, can they?

Omens are everywhere in this world you just have to find the one that fits.

The only thing more dangerous then a vampire crazed with blood lust was a vampire crazed with anything else. All the meticulous single-mindedness that went into finding young women who slept with their bedroom window open got channeled into some other interest, with merciless and painstaking efficiency.