Alas, my being the James Bond of vampires isn't the whole issue. Vanity must wait.

Come on, say it again. I'm a perfect devil. Tell me how bad I am. It makes me feel so good!

I can’t help being a gorgeous fiend. It’s just the card I drew.

The music as always had a dark sweet luster, but it was more than ever like an endless beginning-a theme ever building to a climax which would never come.

Finally those you love are simply ... those you love.

To be human, that's what most of us long for. It is the human which has become myth to us.

Maybe we do go home, finally.

After all, these were blood drinkers, beings who spoke gently, liked poetry, and yet killed mortals all the time.

I don't think you can hold in your mind the full conception of what the world is.

I believe theology should be about one's way of life, a kind of gaze into onesself and others, and a mode of one's profound existence in the world.

Nostalgic memory is a sudden encounter with the thingness of the thing that has been forgotten, not the continuous desire for possessions, whether past, present, or future.

Align your voice value with the tone, pace, and pitch of your listeners will help you connect on all levels.

Insanity is a lack of proportion.

What I've learned is there's a scientifically proven phenomenon that's attached to gratitude, and that if you consciously take note of what is good in your life, quantifiable benefits happen.

I grew up in Stillwater, Minnesota in a proud Catholic family.

Unlike Woody Allen, I would be happy to be part of any (poetry) club that would have me.

History should be to the political economist a wellspring of experience and wisdom.

There are alternate explanations for everything.

One of the troubles with signings is that you are surrounded by children, and some of them have got colds.