The lies you tell yourself. The necessary lies.

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.

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?

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

Sometimes limbs must be re-broken to set properly, her heart too needed to shatter anew before it could truly heal.

To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes.

You can tell alot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.

It will give them the opportunity to show themselves worthy of the respect and friendship of peace-loving nations, and in time, to take an honorable place among members of the United Nations.

Love is like a promise. Once you break it.. it doesn't come back unless you really fight for it.

The only way a no-legged leopard could hurt you is if it fell out of a tree onto your head.

Television is what we're all very attracted to because that's where the best writing and the best characters are.

Golf and women are a lot alike. You know you are not going to wind up with anything but grief, but you can't resist the impulse.

The French have got to understand that a film is so expensive that it can no longer afford to be regional or even national in scope.

In life, it's not who you know that's important, it's how your wife found out.