Don't you see? It is a new age. It requires a new evil. And I am that new evil.

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.

A coward is a man who'd rather live dead than die alive

I love horror, I love scary movies, I love thrillers. If things creep you out and spook you? I love it.

The man who gives his own decisions priority over society is a criminal.

There are bad dreams for those who sleep unwisely.

No one is innocent after the experience of governing. But not everyone is guilty.

Learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.

Life is about doing the things that make you happy, not the things that please other people. If you can please other people, that's a plus, but as long as you're not hurting anyone, you're golden.

If North Korea doesn't have a deterrent, they will be wiped out.

I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, I wanna grow up and be a critic.

Wasn't that the point to being married? That you had a partner, someone you trusted, to help with important decisions.