Fear is only good when you have a choice in things.

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.

A Beautiful Woman Is A Baggage. Thank God Yours Is A Suit Case

When a man admits guilt we have to believe him. We cannot set ourselves to proving to him that he is wrong. Otherwise the law courts would never function.

It looks better when you do your own stunts, because seeing somebody's face when they're doing them is fun for the audience.

A recurring dream probably merits close attention. Something wants you to pay attention.

Women do generally manage to love the guys they marry more than they manage to marry the guys they love.

Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain.

It is better to fall short of a high mark than to reach a low one.

to move the wheels of justice is a ponderous business.

There are still generations of people, older people, who were born and bred and marinated in it, in that prejudice and racism, and they just have to die.

A bass should sound like a bass with the thump of the finger against the wood, like it began with stand up.