People who write finely must not expect to be left in repose; they will be molested with thanks, at least.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

Don't judge a book by its cover

A man's a man. But when you see a king, you see the work of many thousand men.

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

The rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families.

Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Don't you meddle with me, and I won't meddle with you.

You can't buy happiness

I felt drunk on Chase and high on summertime. Why did that sound just like a country song?

Memnoch the Devil happen to be my favorite of all The Vampire Chronicles.

Look, I asked you here for a reason. Much as I hate to admit it, vampire, we have something in common." "Totally awesome hair?" Simon suggested.

We're not motivated by money. We are into this thing that we're building.

To be free is of the essence of every intellectual being.

Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions.

Take advantage and control the moment. Don't let the moment take control of you.

I'm a 9/11 Republican.

All my friends make really small, naturalistic, dialogue-heavy movies, so I'm kind of used to that. I didn't want my movie to be rambly and I didn't want it to be cutesy, or quirky, or clever.