He had grieved for me, I'll give him that much. But then he is so good at grieving! He wears woe as others wear velvet; sorrow flatters him like the light of candles; tears become him like jewels.

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.

It is the end of the world. Surely you could be allowed a few carnal thoughts.

They're very nationalistic the French - or they used to be. Very insular. Pretty arrogant.

There is profundity to explore, but also laundry to do.

I'm a horrible karaoke singer.

Too often faith is used as an epistemological device to avoid the hard labor of straight thinking.

Professional footballers - those virile young stags of our modern culture - are near perpetual fountains of sputum.

They say that ninety per cent of TV is junk. But ninety per cent of everything is junk.

Walk on, walk on with hope in your heart.

Every man has a vocation. The talent is the call.

It is better to err by excess of mercy than by excess of severity. . .Wilt thou become a Saint? Be severe to thyself but kind to others.