Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat Quotes

Oh Lestat, you deserved everything that's ever happened to you. You better not die. You might actually go to hell.

As for oblivion, well, we can wait a little while for that.

Maybe a new religion will rise now. Maybe without it, man will crumble in cynicism and selfishness because he really needs his gods.

I never lie, " I said offhand. "At least not to those I don't love.

I've lived all these years among those who create nothing and change nothing, ' I said. 'Actors and musicians-they're saints to me.

It has its dark splendor, to walk the nightmare terrain forever.

A singer can shatter glass with the proper high note, " he said, "but the simplest way to break glass is simply to drop it on the floor.

If goodness does exist, then I'm the opposite of it. I'm evil, and I revel in it

We are the things that others fear, " I said. "Remember that.

You're the hunter, the warrior. You're stronger than anyone else here, that's your tragedy.

No one is safe from nature's savagery, not even the innocent. Only beauty is consistent. Gabrielle envisions a time when the Savage Garden will overtake civilizations and destroy it.