I always thought of vampires, especially the young-adult ones, as a metaphor for sex - sucking blood, forbidden, taboo. I think they just ooze sex. Vampires are all the big themes in life in one attractive, bloodsucking package.
“Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious.”
“I'm the one who has to look in the mirror, and after a while it begins to eat at you.”