Civilised my syphilised yarbles.

Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.

We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

The important thing is moral choice. Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate. Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities.

It's always good to remember where you come from and celebrate it. To remember where you come from is part of where you're going.

...We're a government that believes in everybody having the illusion of free will.

To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.

I conclude that there is as much sense in nonsense as there is nonsense in sense.

Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?

Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses to be bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?

Sanity is a handicap and liability if you're living in a mad world.

I will not live in a city where dead bodies lie abandoned in the streets, and you will not tell the world I do.

Change forced by others is difficult to accept. And too rapid a change causes instability.

Guard your throats and hide your eyes. He’s not dead, you fools. Legends never die.

Love yourself

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.

Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else.

I used to limp around my neighborhood imitating him. I did my Bar Mitzvah with an Oklahoma drawl.

All comedians are, in a way, anarchists. Our job is to make fun of the existing world.

The only one who knows this ounce of words is just a token, is he who has a ton to tell that must remain unspoken.

It sometimes is just the fear of being misunderstood.