Agenda Quote by Alan Ball

Yeah, obviously we use vampires as a metaphor for something else, something deeper than just the supernatural. But there's just something about the bloodsucking…

— Gerard Way

I think vampires are a timeless powerful archetype that can tap into people's psyches.

— Alan Ball

Vampires are sleek demons for good times. They suavely leech off society - like investment bankers who plunder outsize shares of deals for themselves…

— Adam Cohen

The vampires have always been metaphors for me. They've always been vehicles through which I can express things I have felt very, very deeply.

— Anne Rice

Look, Mr. uh, Wulf I appreciate your trying to warn me about this, Ireally do. But there's no such thing as vampires. They're made-up.…

— Meg Cabot

I always thought of vampires, especially the young-adult ones, as a metaphor for sex - sucking blood, forbidden, taboo. I think they just ooze…

— Melissa de la Cruz

I think vampires have gotten maybe a little bit silly in the last years where they're all wearing crushed velvet and reading poetry and…

— Josh Hartnett

The only vampires I've ever seen are the Goths trying to get a glimpse of Anne Rice's house, who drink strawberry sodas and tell…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

A vampire is a flexible metaphor. You know, death, sex, change, stagnation, loss of self, loss of agency, having to keep one's real self…

— Kelly Link

“For some, vampires are still firmly in the 'evil, scary' column. However, in recent decades, vampires also run the gamut from evil to morally…

— Jeaniene Frost

There is a certain swagger with vampires.

— Charles Michael Davis

Vampires are make-believe, like elves, gremlins, and eskimos.

— Matt Groening