I’m more than twisted. I’m the worst kind of vampire… But you’re the one who’s craving me, so what does that make you?

You can only fight what you are for so long. Eventually the hand that nature has dealt you will make you become what you were meant to be. You have no control over it.

I will not be threatened. Do you understand me?’ He leaned closer again, his lips less than a couple of inches from hers. ‘Now try saying it without trembling.

I’m not punishing you.’ ‘No?’ ‘No. You’d know if I was. Trust me.

The rarity of what you hold is more powerful than you can imagine. It is a gift for humanity and the most lethal curse to the vampires.

We die, you die. You die, we survive. I think there’s a pecking order in that, don’t you?

Music is only understood when one goes away singing it and only loved when one falls asleep with it in one's head, and finds it still there on waking up the next morning.

Love's humility is love's true pride.

Every night I play as if my life depends on it.

I love that people want to know about poetry. It's one of the ways of keeping alive.

God Said: Let there be light! I said: Say please.

How many women do we know who were continually kissed by Clark Gable, William Powell, Cary Grant, Spencer Tracy and Fredric March? Only one: Myrna Loy...

All things change, nothing perishes.

The world is no nursery.

Without society, and a society to our taste, men are never contented.

You don't have to be poor to need something or somebody.