“Only cops and vampires have to have an invitation to enter.”
Christopher Moore (1957) American writer of comic fantasy
Source: The Spellmans Strike Again
“Only cops and vampires have to have an invitation to enter.”
Christopher Moore (1957) American writer of comic fantasy
Nicholas Hilliard (1547–1619) British artist
George Stillman Hillard Six Months in Italy (1853), ch. 5.
Misattributed
Margaret Fuller book Woman in the Nineteenth Century
Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845)
Context: What I mean by the Muse is that unimpeded clearness of the intuitive powers, which a perfectly truthful adherence to every admonition of the higher instincts would bring to a finely organized human being. It may appear as prophecy or as poesy. … and should these faculties have free play, I believe they will open new, deeper and purer sources of joyous inspiration than have as yet refreshed the earth.
Let us be wise, and not impede the soul. Let her work as she will. Let us have one creative energy, one incessant revelation. Let it take what form it will, and let us not bind it by the past to man or woman, black or white.
Alan Watts (1915–1973) British philosopher, writer and speaker
The Nature of Consciousness; also published as What Is Reality? (1989)
“What a fine persecution—to be kept intrigued without ever quite being enlightened.”
Tom Stoppard book Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Source: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
“Oh, come on," Clary said. "You're a vampire, not Spider-Man.”
Cassandra Clare book City of Glass
Source: City of Glass
“You're Giving me a… stick"
MaryL to a very dangerious vampire”
L.J. Smith (1965) American author
Source: Night World, No. 1