When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers I kind of wanted to be a vampire.
It's almost as if we each have a vampire inside us. Controlling that beast, that dark side, is what fascinates me.
Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.
Like a cyclone, imperialism spins across the globe; militarism crushes peoples and sucks their blood like a vampire.
Werewolves were far more terrifying than vampires. It is probably the idea of seeing the human within the beast and knowing you can't reach it. It might as well be a great white shark. There is no sitting down and discussing Proust with it, which the traditional vampire model seems to leave room for. You can have a conversation.