All the mortal world is a lethal enemy during those hours between dawn and dusk.

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.

All you know is what you think you know, but that isn't always what's real.

The biggest risk in life is not the failure, but the failure to get an education.

There is a real joy in being truer version of yourself.

Random makes you smart, random music makes your smart. So keep in touch with random, because random is your friend!

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

I am nothing if not gracious," Will said. His eyes searched Jem's face, that face as familiar to him as his own. "And determined. You will not leave me. Not while I live.

Self-awareness moves us beyond the old, well-worn pathways in the brain that support fixed, unconscious habits.

Sing your song; don't let the bastards get you down.

Gratitude is liberating. It is subversive. It helps us to realize that we are sufficient, and that realization frees us.

I don't know if anybody can second-guess what they will do on Capitol Hill.