If A Novelist Has Created Vivid Characters,

Father May Have Been Wanting In Some Things, But Here He Was Masterful. Night Upon Night, I Marveled At His Power To Hold Listeners In Rapt Attention. He Could Tell A Story With Such Detail, Such Flourish, That Afterwards A Man Could Swear It Had Been His Own Memory, And Not A Tale At All.

However, It Has Long Been Said That "my Enemy's Enemy Is My Friend.

My Job On 'dark Shadows' Was To Make It Fun And Funny, First And Foremost. It Can Still Be Dark And It Can Still Even Be Gory And Gothic At Times, But It Also Needed To Be Fun And It Needed To Be An Experience That People Would Enjoy Having.

Living Men Are Bound By Time... Thus, Their Lives Have An Urgency. This Gives Them Ambition. Makes Them Choose Those Things That Are Most Important, Cling More Tightly To That Which They Hold Dear. Their Lives Have Seasons, And Rites Of Passage, And Consequences. And Ultimately, An End. But What Of A Life With No Urgency? What Then Of Ambition? What Then Of Love?

The More Precious His Gift, The More Anxious God For Its Return.