For me, Dracula has always been associated with travel and beautiful historical places.

It was good to walk into a library again; it smelled like home.

The heart does not go backward. Only the mind.

When you handle books all day long, every new one is a friend and a temptation.

It was not the brutality of what occurred next that changed my mind and brought home to me the full meaning of fear. It was the brilliance of it.

The problem is simply finding the right person. Ask Plato. Just make sure she finishes your thoughts and you finish hers. That's all you need.

As you know, human history is full of evil deeds, and maybe we ought to think of them with tears, not fascination.

...History it seemed could be something entirely different a splash of blood whose agony didn't fade overnight or over centuries.

It's funny; in this era of e-mail and voice mail and all those things that even I did not grow up with, a plain old paper letter takes on amazing intimacy.

There is nothing harder, at moments, than talking to someone who has all the power of silence.

...what will we someday do, I always wonder, without the pleasures of turning through books and stumbling on things we never meant to find?

The opportunity to see the future was placed in us by God through dreams and visions.

How about the more than 1 billion Muslim people in the U.S, who aren't fanatical, who don't punch women, who just want to go to school, have some sandwiches, and pray five times a day?

I have my moments - usually twice every album - when I basically lose it.

The best gift you can give yourself is an open mind.

What happened in Flint is immoral. The children of Flint are just as precious as the children of any other part of America.

As I said, I haven't spent a lot of time thinking about partner brands.

I let God be the judge and I believe that we worship a just and fair God who won't punish innocent people unnecessarily.

There comes with old age a time when the heart is no longer fusible or malleable, and must retain the form in which it has cooled down.

Fascism allegation [to Donald Trump] is not coming from the left. This is coming from the right. It's coming from inside the Republican Party and from within mainstream conservative thought.

Do people get moral when they don't get ahead?