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I believe that we are soft creatures in a world with some very hard edges. It's remarkable that we survive at all, much less do high deeds or write great music. I think … tension … is a condition of our existence, and I do my best to depict it.

— Brian McNaughton

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Vampires, like virgins or priests, are things that women believe in. We must never fail to humor them in such matters.

They see their fellows as impediments to feeding, to be mauled and shrieked at when the mourners go home.

The Throne of Bones (1997)

For all their laughter, ghouls are a dull lot.

The Throne of Bones (1997)

I had always been impatient with superstition. If I ever met a God, I would apologize for disbelieving in Him, but not until then.

The Throne of Bones (1997)

When I was three or four, an older kid tried to scare me away from a barn full of dangerous junk by telling me the Bogeyman lived there. I spent a lot of time crawling around beneath rusted machinery and through barbed wire looking for the Bogeyman, but no luck.

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