I've never seen a great actor do a major role that didn't cost a lot. They're sacrificial animals of a sort.

As a playwright, you are a torturer of actors and of the audience as well. You inflict things on people.

People shouldn't trust artists and they shouldn't trust art. Part of the fun of art is that it invites you to interpret it.

I make my living now as a screenwriter! Which I’m surprised and horrified to find myself saying, but I don’t think I can support myself as a playwright at this point. I don’t think anybody does.

The smallest indivisible human unit is two people, not one; one is a fiction. From such nets of souls societies, the social world, human life springs.

In this world, there is a kind of painful progress. Longing for what we've left behind, and dreaming ahead.

I tend to be sort of quiet and shy and awkward in social situations.

Torture yourself about your failures. And then get back to work.

The white cracker who wrote the National Anthem knew what he was doing. He set the word "free" to a note so high nobody could reach it. That was deliberate.

There's a kind of a fundamental irresponsibility in playwriting, and the strength of playwriting comes from that irresponsibility.

You have a strange relationship with calamity when you're a writer: you write about it; as an artist, you objectify and fetishize it. You render life into material, and that's a creepy thing to do.

Its not about the place we want to visit, its about with whom we visit.

Wealth is relative. Some people aren’t really rich

I was the vampire Lestat again. I was back in action. New Orleans was once again my hunting ground.

Knowledge is more important than life. We've only one excuse for existing, to think, to find out, to learn.

My plan is to not be leading (worship) at any church until I really feel like I'm supposed to be somewhere else.

The well-being of individual persons in any society varies inversely with the money at the disposal of the political class.

In a world of injustice there's going to be dreams of justice.

I love everybody. Each one plays the role they have to play, but in the spiritual arena there are people who are even closer to me than that.

The marvelous thing is that for thousands of years people have continued questioning and searching and ultimately concluding that reasons for certain occurrences are not given to man to know.

The villainous sun and the starved bank did not seem related—yet.