His Back was turned to the end of the world and the end of the world was quiet.

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.

Change takes time, forethought and knowledge, as well as an envisioned goal.

It is in the habits of lawyers that every accusation appears insufficient if they do not exaggerate it even to calumny; it is thus that justice itself loses its sanctity and its respect amongst men.

Many have been ruined by buying good Pennyworths.

Why do people say they wish every day was Friday? If it was always Friday, we'd be here every freakin' day.

Toil, says the proverb, is the sire of fame.

Mother's milk leads to everything.

Unkind language is sure to produce the fruits of unkindness--that is, suffering in the bosom of others.

Harmony is called the eternal. Knowing the eternal is called clarity.

Digital technology is the solvent leaching the glue out of all of our traditional institutions.

You can never trust what you read.