I’d thought I knew what beauty was in women; but she’d surpassed all the language I had for it.

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.

In this worldly life, one is possessed by the three ghosts of the mind, speech and the body.

You will get what you wish for.

An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.

I actually went to university.

In reality, I know I'm not hurt directly by sexism; however, my life is made less because of it, so I started thinking about the fallout from relationships in which people feed off each other.

There is no intimacy without vulnerability. Yet another powerful example of vulnerability as courage.

That is the trouble with happiness-all of it is built on top of something that men want.

The '40s were quite austere and super glamorous.

Friends share secrets. That's what keeps us close.

Notice what no one else notices and you'll know what no one else knows.