“Souls, Ms. Ellis, are for people who blame devils for their illness and praise angels for the cure. I do neither.”

“What has praise and fame to do with poetry? Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice? So that all this chatter and praise, and blame and meeting people who admired one and meeting people who did not admire one was as ill suited as could be to the thing itself- a voice answering a voice. ”

“The devil doesn’t make anyone do anything. People just do things and blame the devil after”

“I am neither good, nor bad, neither angel nor devil, I am a man, I am a vampire.”

“I think about how people use the devil as an alias for the things they fear. The cause and effect is backward. The devil doesn't make anyone do anything. People just do things and blame the devil after.”

“Ask yourself, if there was to be no blame, and if there was to be no praise, who would I be then?”