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

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.

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?

I think that's what you say when you can't have something you want, isn't it? You say you don't want it in the first place.

Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.

There was never any question that I would go to college, that I would travel, that I would go to the theater early and often.

Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.

The more honest you are, the more quieted you are within.

Reality favors symmetry.

Anger and hatred are the materials from which hell is made.

This filing spike is a result of bad information being pushed on people, and then they file for bankruptcy out of fear.

Later that night, I held an atlas on my lap, ran my fingers across the whole world, and whispered, ‘where does it hurt?’ It answered, everywhere, everywhere, everywhere.

Taffeta phrases, silken terms precise, Three-piled hyperboles, spruce affection, Figures pedantical--these summer flies Have blown me full of maggot ostentation.