There may be writing groups where people meet but it's occasional. You really do it all at your own computer or your own typewriter by yourself.

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.

This you have to understand. There's only one way to hurt a man who's lost everything. Give him back something broken.

Don't let doubt steal your dreams.

The amount of control you have over somebody if you can monitor internet activity is amazing.

I might do cartoonish sexual jokes, but it's my way of saying what's going on in the world. How people are animals, really.

You've no idea how good an old joke sounds when you take it out again after a rest of five or six hundred years.

Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed.

I don't want to pass because I can't stand insincerities and shams. I am just as much Negro as any of the others identified with the race.

In this frightening, anxious time to be alive it can be liberating to remember that nothing lasts forever. That can focus and invigorate our hopes.

Your real courage shows best in the hour of adversity.

For he that feeds men serveth few; He serves all who dares be true.