Before I left the castle I so fixed its entrances that never more can the Count enter there Undead.

Take me away from all this Death.

I sometimes think we must be all mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait-waistcoats.

Once again...welcome to my house. Come freely. Go safely; and leave something of the happiness you bring.

I want to cut off her head and take out her heart.

No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.

There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.

Despair has its own calms.

We learn from failure, not from success!

Souls and memories can do strange things during trance.

Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker

A pessimist sees the darkness around the light, but an optimist looks for the light in the darkness.

When I hear the word 'culture' I reach for my gun.

Biography is one of the new terrors of death.

Since PTSD is being exposed to death and the death of someone close, I felt really close to [the soldiers].

If there is a heaven, it must be here on earth because the earth is so beautiful.

I have a theory that most people in Hollywood are from Texas.

George Harrison was known as the quiet Beatle. Quiet people are often quiet because they are deep thinkers.

Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds?

My road to publishing actually came through a colleague who connected me to my agent, and the faculty at Cornell was very supportive.

We have to Build Bridges of Peace Instead of building Walls of Wars.