My greatest sin has always been that I have a wonderful time being myself

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.

Stand for something. Make your life mean something. Start where you are with what you have. You are enough.

You look like you should be on a Wheaties box with this haircut.

Do you know anyone who has a lease on life? It isn’t a question of if; it’s a question of when.

America, like all nations, has to renounce war.

Appropriation was the language of my generation in many ways. It came out of Duchamp, Warhol, Johns, Lichtenstein.

It seems the public in Europe has not yet learnt that most girls in India today go to school.

Usually people start with painting and then go on to make installations; my painting came from installation.

Never hate jealous people. They are jealous because they think you are better than them.

Here is my music. It is all I have to tell you how I feel. Know that your love keeps my love strong.