Believe in angels? Then believe in vampires. Believe in me. There are worse things on earth.

Come on, say it again. I'm a perfect devil. Tell me how bad I am. It makes me feel so good!

Don't be a fool for the Devil, darling.

Claudia... you've been a very very naughty little girl.

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

I am the Vampire Lestat. I'm immortal more or less. The light of the sun, the sustained heat of an intense fire-these things might destroy me. But then again, they might not.

Nothing in all the world is so nonsensical and contradictory, save mortals, that is, who live in the grip of the superstitions of the past.

One moment the world is as it is. The next, it is something entirely different. Something it has never been before.

-You are on the verge of being truly mad. -No, not at all. Look at me. I can tie my shoelaces. See?

None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are.

Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a very dangerous enemy indeed.

Like Cupid, your promiseswere just misses.

But you need to make sure that the last thing you remember about today isn't that you fell down, it's that you got back up again. That's what we do when bad things happen to us.

Men secretly respect a woman who is strong, has confidence and has dreams of her own. There's nothing more attractive to a man than a woman who has dignity and pride in who she is.

The hero is valorous because he stands up to every threat directed against his values. Heroism requires value conflict.

How many times have I created to destroy?

It is a clumsy experiment to make; for it involves the destruction of the very consciousness which puts the question and awaits the answer.

Thoroughbred racing is really my true passion. I'm living my dream.

The technologies that raise the fewest ethical problems are those that work on a human scale, brightening the lives of individual people.

Love sees clearly, and seeing, loves on. But infatuation is blind; when it gains sight, it dies.