I think that we are supernatural. We are unique. We're the only animals in the universe that we know of that actually have self-consciousness, a sense of time and our own mortality.

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.

Peace is not the absence of chaos. It is the presence of tranquility and joy in the midst of chaos.

Death stoops over me.I'm a problem in chess. Hehas the solution.

I want to be the best, and the best work. You have to earn what you get, and you have to work to keep it.

The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic.

I really believe one of the jobs of a writer is to stretch as far as you can into other voices.

When the uncarved wood is split, its parts are put to use. When the sage is put to use, he becomes the head.

Innocence gave me confidence to go up against reality.

If my tongue were trained to measures, I would sing a stirring song.

If the being of God ceased for one second, the universe would disappear.

Be. Here. NOW. Don't forget to breathe. When all else fails, grab a clown nose.