But sorrow can also be contagious. Fear is different. It isn't as communicable as laughter or sadness, and a good thing too. Fear is almost entirely a lonely thing.

The truth is that I feel totally helpless, or totally inconsolable, to be more honest. I’m not trying to hide it, but it’s something you’re not to worry about.

But if two people do almost nothing except search for one another, it's hardly surprising if they run across each other by chance.

But what is a person, George? How much is a person worth? Are we nothing but dust that is whipped up and spread to the winds?

We are the universe.

Look at the world, Georg, look at the world before you've filled yourself with too much physics and chemistry.

I can wait until my heart bleeds with sorrow.

Although I've always been easily led by my imagination, I was, and I remain, a rational person.

I no longer feel the need to see and sense more than I've already experienced. I just want so desperately to hang on what I have.

But the dream of something unlikely has its own special name. We call it hope.

Price of peace could only be valued by people who had suffered loss in the war.

The real joy of writing lies in the opportunity of being able to sacrifice a whole chapter for a single sentence, a complete sentence for a single word...

My best advice to you is: Whatever you do, do NOT take my advice.

I always think that you should be striving to write your best song.

I can remain thoughtfully thoughtless, It is not an empty mind.

Eating is never so simple as hunger.

Tolerance can lead to learning something.

Steve [King] has been incredibly supportive. He's also really good about getting back to me when I have questions about plot or characterization.

I went out and got little jobs. I was selling candy as a teenager, selling newspapers. But as I got older, I didn't want to sell that anymore. I wanted to make more money.

Tell Allen I plead guilty to vampirism and other crimes against life. But I love him and nothing else cancels love.