Movies are extremely imitative of one another. Whatever works, people will try to do it.

People have the right to call themselves whatever they like. That doesn't bother me. It's other people doing the calling that bothers me.

Several years ago, when I was about to start a novel, I thought I might get some mileage out of the idea of a civilization in which people somehow felt - that is, they shared - all the pain and all the pleasure they caused one another.

Here I was into astronomy, and here into anthropology, and there I go into geology. It was much more fun to be able to research and write about whatever I wanted to.

Most vampires I have discovered are men for some reason. I guess it's because of Dracula; people are kind of feeding off that.

I don't write about good and evil with this enormous dichotomy. I write about people. I write about people doing the kinds of things that people do.