First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success.

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.

But he'll never be fully recognised, because Scots literature these days is all about complaining and moaning and being injured in one's soul.

This two-track plan of nationalism and development (in China) is a historically powerful weapon.

The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.

The faking of feelings is a sin against the imagination.

Those things that are precious are saved only by sacrifice.

You can't talk your way out of something you behaved your way into. You have to behave your way out of it.

The discrepancy between what actually happened and the version of what happened provided by sources is an enormous gray area.

Love is a bird... she needs to fly.

I'm always reading books, I'm always having encounters, I'm always taking trips. Whatever it is you come up with about how you got started, that's equally true for all the books you didn't start.

There are two things that you have to do in life: You have to die, and you have to live until you die. The rest is up to you.