They massacred the servants before killing my parents. I saw it all through a knothole in the wood. As I said, my eyes were better back then.

Welcome to the wonderful world of jealousy, he thought. For the price of admission, you get a splitting headache, a nearly irresistable urge to commit murder, and an inferiority complex. Yippee.

You've won the evolutionary lottery: You're a vampire. Let's go to Disneyland!

As far as he was concerned, there were only two good positions for a human. A female on her back. And a male facedown not breathing.

And I'll wash your other clothes. Shall I also order you a new set of leathers?""Don't-" Wrath shut his mouth. "Sure. That'd be great. And, ah, could you get me some boxers? Black? XXL?

Vengeance was one hell of a roommate.

The place is also big enough. We could all live there without killing each other." -Rhage"That depends more on your mouth than any floorplan." -Phury

Some bridges you crossed on your own, no matter who drove you to the edge.

Hobbies may eventually grow into a major activity that brings money

Money per se does not make you happy - it's what it enables you to do with your life.

I care about strangers when they're abstractions, but I feel almost nothing when they're literally in front of me.

You cannot strengthen one by weakening another; and you cannot add to the stature of a dwarf by cutting off the leg of a giant.

We think we listen, but very rarely do we listen with real understanding, true empathy. Yet listening, of this very special kind, is one of the most potent forces for change that I know.

I don't do football. (Grew up in Leeds in the 1970s. Football there was indellibly associated with the National Front, i.e. violent fascist skinheads.)

The holy spirit of the Spring Is working silently.

I write and film history; I don't make it.

Testing of self is a regular part of our own lives, so it seems natural to make it a part of the lives of my characters, as well, albeit on a much different level.

Personally I am in favour of education but a university is not the place for it.