I assume I don't need an introduction.

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.

Sometimes the things that destroy you, become the architectural blueprints which make your mind royal.

The best way to deal with your past is not to avoid thinking about it or trying to forget it, but to accept it happened, forgive yourself and move on.

I used to tease Joe Louis by reminding him that I was the greatest of all time. But Joe Louis was the greatest heavyweight fighter ever.

I do not think I could myself, be brought to support a man for office, whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.

The only way on Earth to influence other people is to talk about what they want and show them how to get it.

Never think that Jesus commanded a trifle, nor dare to trifle with anything He has commanded.

My chosen drink would be a Southern Comfort, lime and lemonade, a dry martini or a good red wine.

You cannot intellectualize the Divine. You have to experience it on your central nervous system.

I'd like to change the depictions of life, love, and adventure under what's known as the typical, overused backdrop of Hollywood.

You only cry for help if you believe there is help to cry for.