When you were in love, you knew no fear or hatred. When you were fearful, there was no possibility of love or hate. And when there was hate, there was only hate.

I would look up at the moon and see that it was not the smooth orb we had all believed, but a pitted and scarred world with no air.

Some loves have to be given up, others have to be forgotten. Strange as it may sound, if you think of me as a monster, but I can love most passionately. I do not think of myself as evil.

For feeling, not events, is to me the essence of history.

People with power always take advantage of those without power.

I am a vampire, and that is the truth.

Before I begin, may I ask how old you are?""You may ask.""How old are you?""It's none of your business

He cries. 'Please! I don't want to die.'I lean over. My hair smothers him.'Then you should never have been born, ' I say.

Darkness approaches from outside.I feel no light inside me strong enough to resist it.

The truth speaks for itself.

There is the past, and there is the future. The present is never more than the single second dividing one from the other. We live poised on that second as it's hurtling forward—toward what?

To be inspired - that's the secret.

You must ascend a mountain to learn your relation to matter, and so to your own body, for it is at home there, though you are not.

The reason for designing new media is simple - to subtly and quietly change the world.

To condense fact from the vapor of nuance.

One must see one's model correctly and experience it in the right way; and furthermore express oneself forcibly and with distinction.

Sense is a line, the mind is a circle. Sense is like a line which is the flux of a point running out from itself, but intellect like a circle that keeps within itself.

Ah, yes, superstition: it would appear to be cowardice in face of the supernatural.

Hunger, thirst, heat and cold: I had tasted them in full