In real life, good people die all the time and a**holes can live long and happy lives. It's a crapshoot.

Real life ... it was an ambiguous world, where actions sometimes had no meaning, where chaos reigned and no one was allowed to see the big picture, only their small portion of it.

Life is short. Eternity is long.

There were shadows galore in the dim light, but there was one shadow that did not correspond to any object in the room. It lurked next to the fireplace, a formless, undulating darkness.

Murder is an inherently evil act, no matter what the circumstances, no matter how convincing the rationalizations.

Hope was a dangerous emotion that more often than not led men into foolishness and peril, made them risk their lives and lose their wives and part with fortunes that they never recovered.

Names have power. In certain cultures, just speaking a man's name gives you mastery over him.

I always thought the appeal for vampires are the same as religion, the desire to avoid death and live forever.

Horror writers can write about everything in the real world that a mainstream novelist can--plus the supernatural, which is the most fertile field for metaphor imaginable.

Real life was messier than fiction, and in it you didn't always have time to do or say the right things.

I think the internet is a great marketing tool--but marketing is not my job. I'm a writer. My job is to write novels.

There's two kinds of women--those you write poems about and those you don't.

We are living on what we believe and the virtues upon which we stand.

Friendship is born from an identity of spiritual goals - from common navigation toward a star.

To be thrown upon one's own resources, is to be cast in the very lap of fortune.

Everything's a business. Love, truth, beauty. Conversation is a business. Spirituality is not a business, so it's going to go against the grain of people who are trying to exploit other people.

When I was younger, I didn't like shooting part, because I was more of a writer and didn't like being the center of it all.

I used to dream of being normal. For me, if Kirk Douglas walked into the house, that was normal.

The history of science is science itself; the history of the individual, the individual.

The trouble with poverty, as an issue, is that it has basically exhausted the patience of the general public.

Peace and negativity cannot coexist just as light and darkness cannot coexist.