If you had a lot of money and you were miserable, you’d be miserable poor.

It’s why we close the eyes, too. The dead shouldn’t have to look on the lewd aliveness of the living.

Nothing is the whole story. The self’s curse – and the writer’s.

The lies you tell yourself. The necessary lies.

All vampires smoke. Smoking’s high on the list of Things You Take Up To Pass The Time.

It’s Big Brother with werewolves. Live coverage for a month, leading up to a group kill on full moon.

... vampire ruler Hin Kahur implemented howler aversion therapy.

Comedy, of course, lives for serious moments.

Why do people who read Shakespeare still spend hours watching shitty TV or staring out of the window or arguing about whose dinner party to go to?

He spins us both, wrapping us in his wings until I’m dazed and gig

If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh.

Never yet was a nation born that did not begin in the spirit, pass to the heart and the mind, and then take an outer form in the world of men.

Both humanity's capacity to innovate and the incentives to innovate are greater today than at any other time in history.

Money never made a fool of anybody; it only shows them up.

In different lifetimes, you incarnate in different dimensional planes, let alone in different universes in the physical universe.

People demand a lot of the justice system and they demand things that it can't deliver.

It [angling] deserves commendations;... it is an art worthy the knowledge and practice of a wise man.

I've been married to one Marxist and one Fascist, and neither one would take the garbage out.

Leave in concealment what has long been concealed.