I drank, sucking the blood out of the holes, experiencing for the first time since infancy the special pleasure of sucking nourishment, the body focused with the mind upon one vital source.

Don't be a fool for the Devil, darling.

And I realized that I’d tolerated him this long because of self-doubt.

The only power that exists is inside ourselves.

The world changes, we do not, therein lies the irony that kills us.

Let the flesh instruct the mind.

I was a newborn vampire, weeping at the beauty of the night.

It was as if when I looked into his eyes I was standing alone on the edge of the world...on a windswept ocean beach. There was nothing but the soft roar of the waves.

As if the night had said to me, ‘You are the night and the night alone understands you and enfolds you in its arms’ One with the shadows. Without nightmare. An inexplicable peace.

How pathetic it is to describe these things which can't truly be described.

And he would listen, making only a few comments, always sympathetic, so that when I left him I had the distinct impression he had solved everything for me.

The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.

It started to rain and we just sat. Sat and watched the rain in silence.

The minute you step onstage, you get eight feet taller.

In a race, the quickest runner can never overtake the slowest, since the pursuer must first reach the point whence the pursued started, so that the slower must always hold a lead.

People who want alternative information have to try so hard to find it.

They gave me eyes. All of you are beautiful; you shine like stars. But I must go away with them.

Between yea and nay, how much difference is there?

Death is always sad, I suppose, to us who look forward to it: I expect it will seem very different when we can look back upon it.

Don't look for the meanings; look for the use.

Affirmations don't make something happen; they make something welcome.