Anne Rice Quotes

Time can tick when there is no clock.

Oh, if the moon only had a secret, if the moon only held a truth. But the moon was just the moon.

God, what is it like to be You and hear all those people all the time everywhere, begging, imploring, calling out for anything and anyone?

Phil was mumbling that Reuben might become a writer after all and writers had a way of "redeeming everything that ever happens to them.

I lived like a man who wanted to die but who had no courage to do it himself.

I feel like an outsider, and I always will feel like one. I've always felt that I wasn't a member of any particular group.

The supernatural world has always been more real to me than the real world.

‎There's no way to cheat a sensualist like me, somebody who can die laughing for hours over the pattern of the carpet in a hotel lobby.

He had grieved for me, I'll give him that much. But then he is so good at grieving! He wears woe as others wear velvet; sorrow flatters him like the light of candles; tears become him like jewels.

No one is safe from nature's savagery,not even the innocent. Only beauty is consistent. Gabrielle envisions a time when the Savage Garden will overtake civilizations and destroy it.

Oh, but when love is reached through suffering, it has a power it can never gain through innocence.

It draws it's strength, this big secret, from the same root from which I draw my strength, both the good and the bad, because in the end, they cannot be separated.

I would have done just about anything for him.

And so this young one, this young one whom I had so loved, I had to forsake, no matter how broken my heart, no matter how lonely my soul, no matter how bruised my intellect and spirit.

Who knows what the hell a government is or what the hell a government does.

When I'm writing, the darkness is always there. I go where the pain is.

The young know how truly difficult and dreadful youth can be. Their youth is wasted on everyone else, that's the horror. The young have no authority, no respect.

Aren't there gradations of evil? Is evil a great perilous gulf into which one falls with the first sin, plummeting to the depth?

Some mysteries are simply irresistible,” she said. “They have components that alter a life.

...what was the good of being a movie werewolf? You howled at the moon; you couldn't remember what you did, and then somebody shot you.

Say what you will to the force that governs the universe. Perhaps we'll call it into being, and it will yet love us as we love it.

It is not man who is the enemy of the human species. It is the irrational; it is the spiritual when it is divorced from the material; from the lesson in one beating heart or one bleeding vein.

"You're a perfect devil, Lestat!" he was saying. "That's what you are! You are the devil himself!"

You make me miserable. You really do, I want you to know that. Much as I love you, much as I need you, much as I can't exist without you, you make me miserable.

Sometimes dreams show me that my writing should go deeper. Dreams have not so much changed my work as deepened it.

Your love to others, and their love for you, that the increase of love in life itself around you, is what matters.

A perfect world or a world destroyed, one or the other- someday will come the end of hell.

Whipping is fifty percent show and noise.

Old truths and ancient magic, revolution and invention, all conspire to distract us from the passion that in one way or another defeats us all.

Garden of Pain, I need you. What were the songs of beasts to the cries of sentient souls?

We are not damned. We never were. Who under the sun has the right to damn any living breathing creature?

My life's been too much of a self-created vocation. And there are times when I think I've done everything in the name of defiance.

Curses of vanished elders echoed down on me; too pretty, too soft, too pale, eyes far too full of the Devil, ah, that devilish smile

The old gods will bring about vengeance not so much because they exist but because I once honored them.

I was influenced by the medieval theological beliefs when I presented Satan in Jesus' dream as unable to figure out who or what Jesus is, and unable to see the future.

Making a film, I've learned, can be an exhausting process, due to the need for backing, distribution, etc.

What I have always wanted more than revenge is to bring the other person to recognition of the pain they caused, so they essentially say, "I will never do that again."

When we love and want nothing but good for that person, it's one of the greatest gifts we possess.

I have to move away from organized religion. The toxic confusion and anger I was feeling in church had become too great.

People write to me all the time to tell me that "homosexuality is an abomination." They base this on a quote in Leviticus. I think the Bible has proved to be a very mysterious and dangerous document.

I cannot mislead people into believing that I support organized religion. In Jesus' name, I cannot be complicit with many of the things organized religion does.

I am certain a great many believers and bible readers do believe in social justice.

I believe in the Biblical documents supporting Jesus. But I have no illusions about them. I think they contain many flaws, scribal errors, and so forth and they are only partial or fragmentary.

I no longer represent any organized religion. I'm not Catholic. I'm not Christian. I'm saying this because I have to be an outsider for Christ.

I never lie, " I said offhand. "At least not to those I don't love.

People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil... Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.

I saw my real gods . . the gods of most men. Food, drink, and security in conformity.

The Maker offers us creation itself as proof of his greatness.

What is written beneath this heavy handsome book cover will count, so sayeth this cover…

I'll write about my past but I won't talk about it. I'll turn it into art if I can, but I won't talk about it.