"The Abbey always reminds me of that old toast, 'Above lofty timbers, the walls around are bare, echoing to our laughter, as though the dead were there.'"

“My mind is just as open as it ever was, professor. But it's a scientific mind, and there's no place in it for superstitions.”

“For one who has not lived even a single lifetime, you are a wise man, Van Helsing.”

“She was beautiful when she died—a hundred years ago.”

“You can't murder a man who's been dead for five centuries.”

“I made him with these hands, and with these hands I'll destroy him.”

“Have you never wanted to do anything that was dangerous? Where should we be if nobody tried to find out what lies beyond? You never wanted to look beyond the clouds and the stars, or to know what causes the trees to bud, and what changes a darkness into light? But if you talk like that, people call you crazy. Well, if I could discover just one of these things—what eternity is, for example—I wouldn't care if they did think I was crazy.”