We shall live even in this state of living death, we shall love, we shall feel, we shall defy all who would judge and destroy us.

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.

To win the peace, fight with your love and understanding.

In a company where tech decisions were still ultracentralized, the repercussions of a distracted CEO had to be damaging.

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

I think we cannot have a double standard. We cannot see our art as different from the reality. We cannot use two different sets of judgment.

I am an actor and I live in the world of pretend in my working capacity. I live in the world of my imagination.

A continual atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of your own.

A million feelings. A thousand thoughts. A hundred memories. All for one person.

The chances that your tombstone will read 'Killed by Asteroid' are about the same as they'd be for 'Killed in Airplane Crash.'

That teacher teaches best who teaches least.

If I could change my appearance, I would have the gap between my front teeth put back in.