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.

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.

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.

The only real estate I will ever truly own is the space inside my head and heart. And what I build there is up to me.

Wonders happen either way. With you or without you.

Literary genres and techniques tend to take form in one's mind somewhat the way computer templates provide form for different computer tasks.

It is not easy to determine the nature of music, or why any one should have a knowledge of it.

The real problem is not increasing your energy. The problem is losing it. If you stop the loss and you simply meditate, you will have more than enough energy. You will learn to live strategically.

In my view, there's no doubt that the Soviets had infinitely greater trouble holding their structure together than we did.

I was always wrapped around music being a tradition, a skill.

I don't like seeing her this delicate.

When I see people on the street, I look at how they walk. It's like a signature, a fingerprint.

Have you noticed that the people who actually make the laws, the people in power, never make laws for themselves?