This suffering, this unspeakable capacity to bleed and to know pain and to know annihilation, is what has to be overcome in this world if anyone is to reach God.

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.

Sometimes I think, I need a spare heart to feel all the things I feel.

Break what must be broken, once for all, that's all, and take the suffering on oneself.

Sorry I painted the word 'twat' on your garage door.

Love is the greatest refreshment in life.

The biggest challenge, I think for any new artist, is patience.

The culmination of three trophies was the pinnacle of my career and it has been rewarded with a knighthood.

Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.

Tug on anything in nature and you will find it connected to everything else.

I told people I was a drummer before I even had a set, I was a mental drummer.

God can be trusted. He keeps His promises. He doesn't make any mistakes.