I had wanted to say that my song was far too painful to sing.

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.

Peter's destiny lay along a different path from John's. And your calling is unlike anyone else's. But the call remains the same: "Follow Me!

Everyone tells me I've had such an interesting life, but sometimes I think it's been nothing but stomach disturbances and self-concern.

Things that bring out your emotions are what should be in theaters and in books. That's what art is. It makes you feel things.

Get a dream, hold on to it and shoot for the sky.

Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?

What would human life be without forests, those natural cities?

I couldn't help wondering if that was what God put me on Earth for--to find out how much a man could take without breaking.

No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.

Don't be afraid, you can do it.

Don’t be overwhelmed . . . take it one day and one prayer at a time.