“Even bipolar vampires needed sleep from time to time, and he was well past his recommended safe dosage of stress.”

“Even in the most stressed times there is always time for reading.”

“I collect the most valuable thing in the world—free time. But unlike other priceless things, I don’t need a safe to keep it safe, because I keep all my free time in the past, where nobody can touch it—not even me. My collection grows larger every day.”

“A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist. ”

“There are vampires. They are real, they are of our time, and they are here, close by, stalking us as we sleep...”

“To recommend a monarchy on account of the prosperity it gives the provinces seems to me like recommending that a man should have liberty to treat his children as slaves, if at the same time he treats his slaves with reasonable consideration.”