Malady of 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.

Violence only attacks the body, but it is non-violence that has the power to influence the soul and reshape it towards a peaceful future.

Living in a castle is objectively romantic.

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

Ego is the most important aspect of our life in the sense if we use it against the spaces between our hearts.

But what all the violence of the feudal institutions could never have effected, the silent and insensible operation of foreign commerce and manufactures gradually brought about.

That's the difference between girls and women: Girls find men fascinating. Women know better.

Marriage is a living sign that truly communicates the love of Christ and the Church.

We can't encourage narrow mindedness, for no nation can be great whose people are narrow in thought.

I'll have to have a palace, of course. I may not be a princess, but I am a movie queen, and every queen should have a palace.

A fool and his money are soon invited everywhere.