I don't believe in anything and that makes me stronger than you think

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.

Clearly God was in some kind of mood on my birthday.

The battle over flesh and blood cannot compare to the battle for the heart.

Yeah, well, not many boys take their girls out on a duck shoot with them as target for a first date. You have to give me points for style.

Since the nineteen-fifties, rural Florida has marketed itself to Northerners and Midwesterners as an unexplored paradise of citrus and mermaids.

You can’t jump for the stars if your feet hurt.

Some people don't take me seriously, so I had to work harder.

One mistake will never kill you. The same mistake over and over again will.

The more we can purge ourselves of the diseases we create the more we can become magnificent people

It would be nice to find a 'planet of trees and birds' in the space; only trees and birds, millions of different trees and millions of different birds!

A book is solitude, privacy; it is a way of holding the self apart from the crush of the outer world.