I had many wonderful experiences, received beautiful letters, and my Christian books received substantive and thoughtful reviews. But there was alway….

Oh, if the moon only had a secret, if the moon only held a truth. But the moon was just the moon..

[...] so important to believe in a concept of goodness, even if we make it up ourselves. We don't really make it up. it's there, isn't it?" "Oh, yes,….

All my life,I've been afraid of things, as a child and a woman must be. I lied about it naturally. I fancied myself a witch and walked in dark street….

DO I BELIEVE THAT PEOPLE ARE BASICALLY GOOD? Yes, I do believe that, and I trust Buddhists and Hindus and Moslems to seek the good and to want to liv….

Then, are you master of us all? You didn't teach her that. Was she supposed to imbibe it from my quiet subservience?.

Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and ….

The thing should have plot and character, beginning, middle and end. Arouse pity and then have a catharsis. Those were the best principles I was ever….

For always in her there was a dark place full of despair and a great dividing force to make meaning because there was none..

Ah, come now. I look like an angel, but I'm not. The old rules of nature encompass many creatures like me. We're beautiful like the diamond-backed sn….

My conscience is killing me, isn't it? And when you're immortal that can be a really long and ignominious death.

No one is safe from nature's savagery,not even the innocent. Only beauty is consistent. Gabrielle envisions a time when the Savage Garden will overta….

I am an unwilling devil. I cry like some vagrant child. I want to go home..

But during all these years I had a vague but persistent desire to return to New Orleans. I never forgot New Orleans. And when we were in tropical pla….

If I am an angel, paint me with black wings..

I don't believe in anything and that makes me stronger than you think.

Do you know what it means to be loved by Death?... Do you know what it means to have Death know your name?.

Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense ob….

One will hate you for taking his life, another will run to excesses that you scorn. A third will emerge mad and raving, another a monster you cannot ….

My efforts with Hollywood are like things written in water..

The fans, the vampire groupies, love the idea of this androgynous, preternatural figure stalking the night, and craving aesthetic pleasure just as he….