There is no more foul or relentless enemy of man in the occult world than this dead-alive creature spewed up from the grave.

We must all die. There's nothing terrible about death. But to live on after death, a soul, earthbound, a vampire--you don't wish any such fate for your beloved.

I finally stopped seeking in others everything I could only find in myself.

You can’t colour your world with someone’s paint.

The very worst events in life have that effect on a family: we always remember, more sharply than anything else, the last happy moments before everything fell apart.

Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that.

For me writing is so perplexing, because if we were playing ping pong and we weren't writing - twenty years later you'd be just so much better at ping pong and this confidence with ping pong.

The only business in the world bigger than gambling is religion...but gambling is not nearly so corrupt.

No man preaches his sermon well to others if he does not first preach it to his own heart.

If good happens, good; if bad happens, good.

A priest encounters temptation every day, and some of that desire is very natural.

Always be grateful for your blessings, especially your heritage. When we are blessed with goodly parents, we should be grateful. This is the debt each of us owes for our heritage.