... what I fear in writing is the safe decision.

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.

Caesar's messengers didn't go round the world saying, 'Caesar is lord, so if you feel you need to have a Roman-empire kind of experience, you might want to submit to him'.

This was it, he knew it, was sure of it, this was the door which would take him back—

Forms come and go. You, the quantum non-entity behind your human identity, comes nor goes.

I shall now express my utter disgust and anger with you through the piano.

Entrepreneur, your distinction can be found on Twitter, so, is your thought leadership impressing or depressing?

I must be alive, " Gawain said hoarsely. "Dead doesn't hurt this much.

The rich today are richer, there are more of them, they have round-the-clock propaganda factories in Rupert Murdoch's empire and rightwing talk radio, and corporate media have their back.

Few things are less comforting than a tiger who's up too late.

Honor in the Dust is less about the freedom of the Philippines than the soul of the United States.

I’m not investigating race as much as I’m investigating intimacy.