A surfeiting of terror soon made terror a cliché.

Thank you...for gracing my life with your lovely presence, for adding the sweet measure of your soul to my existence.

Full circle. A new terror born in death, a new superstition entering the unassailable fortress of forever. I am legend.

In a world of monotonous horror there could be no salvation in wild dreaming.

How quickly one accepts the incredible if only one sees it enough.

To me there is nothing that goes against nature. If it seems incomprehensible, its only because we havent been able to understand it yet.

That which you believe becomes your world

Normalcy was a majority concept, the standard of many and not the standard of just one man.

What would a Mohammedan vampire do if faced with a cross?

All of us have a path to follow and the path begins on earth.

I hope people are reading my work in the future. I hope I have done more than frightened a couple of generations. I hope I've inspired a few people one way or another.

Words need to be sown like seeds. No matter how tiny a seed may be, when in lands in the right sort of ground it unfolds its strength and from being minute expands and grows to a massive size.

There is but one pleasure in life equal to that of being called on to make an after-dinner speech, and that is not being called on to make one.

I've never had a surprise birthday party. I've had every other type of surprise. I've had surprise beatings, surprise drug tests, surprise daughter I think.

What to do with a mistake: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it.

Healing comes from the healed; not from the physician.

I really like Calvin Klein for his classic simplicity. I also think Prabal Gurung designs some great pieces that work well for me. My mom has such great style she's my biggest influence.

It is like being in the desert. At first you listen to the absence of sounds and call it silence. Then suddenly you may be taken by the presence of stillness where you are one with listening itself.

Democracies don't go to war.

Why don't those damn oil companies fly their own flags on their personal property-maybe a flag with a gas pump on it.

I miss my family, and I like being a tourist when I go back.