Dickens is a very underrated writer at the moment. Everyone in his time admired him but I think right now he's not spoken of enough.

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.

Weak men cannot handle power. It will either crush them, or they will use it to crush others

Sunlight dusts them

Has anyone succeeded in being his own desire?

It might be a huge hit, it might not; but you learn something doing it.

In the end, I think musicians know that getting up in the morning and making music you love doesn't necessarily mean that you deserve billions of dollars or worship from anybody.

Love and businesse teach eloquence.

My week beats your year.

In all my research I have never come across matter. To me the term matter implies a bundle of energy which is given form by an intelligent spirit.

By the time the people asking the questions are ready for the answers, the people doing the work have lost track of the questions.

I believe in individual rights so much that I don't like any sort of 'what's good for the cause'-type questions.