"'The strength of the vampire is that no one will believe in him.'...It was true. The book was a hodgepodge of superstitions and soap-opera clichés, but that line was true; no one had believed in them, and how could they fight something they couldn't even believe in?" Chapter 3, pg. 28

"The vampire may foster quickened heartbeats and levitated hair. But is he worse than the parent who gave to society a neurotic child who became a politician? Is he worse than the manufacturer who set up belated foundations with the money he made by handing bombs and guns to suicidal nationalists? Is he worse than the distiller who gave bastardized grain juice to stultify further the brains of those who, sober, were incapable of a progressive thought? ...Is he worse, then, than the publisher who filled ubiquitous racks with lust and death wishes? Really, now, search...