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?

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.

The lies you tell yourself. The necessary lies.

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.

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

Forgiveness does not change the past, that’s for sure, but it does change the future.

Don't ever permit any level of accomplishments to slow down your drive to win.

Most of us accept that although we may believe our dreams to be real events, upon waking, we can tell the difference between nocturnal hallucinations and reality.

Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.

The last day of your life is still going to be a day.

It is my art. I am better at it than I ever was. And I will do it as long as I can. When you reach a certain age you can slough off what is unnecessary and concentrate on what is. And why not?

The surest way to ruin a man who doesn't know how to handle money is to give him some.

I went to University of Illinois. Big school. 35,000 students. 800 black... I was the only black in every class. Hard to be absent.

Buttercups, bright eyed and bold, hold their chalices of gold to catch the sunshine and the dew.

Artistically, you want to be able to do a lot of things that can challenge you to not just stay in the same thing.