I believe in the Biblical documents supporting Jesus. But I have no illusions about them. I think they contain many flaws, scribal errors, and so forth and they are only partial or fragmentary.

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.

. . . poetry, like all imaginative creations, divines the human enterprise. This is poetry's social value.

Children are not chattel. they cannot be given away or traded in the marketplace.

So you write to our congressmenWith bleeding pensOf the sorrow withinAnd in return they just sendTickets to the latest Tom Hanks show

Let us remember that sorrow alone is the creator of great things.

My parents always looked like they loved being together. That's what I took from them, and that's how my wife and I are. I still feel like we're dating.

Mankind has grown strong in eternal struggles and it will only perish through eternal peace.

But civlyzation doos git forrid Sometimes upon a powder-cart.

People want change. How is Barack going to do it? I think McCain can bring change.

And, for instance, Baptists, Adventists, Lutherans, Pentecostals - let them exist on line with others.

It's always fun to see where my journey takes me and how sometimes what's not on the list is so much better than what you could have imagined.