I have to move away from organized religion. The toxic confusion and anger I was feeling in church had become too great.

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.

He who writes well runs the civilization. Everyone else does the grunt work.

There's no substitute for imagination, but creativity is only enhanced when forged with life experience.

But I want first of all- in fact, as an end to these other desires- to be at peace with myself.

I am not my thoughts, emotions, sense perceptions, and experiences. I am not the content of my life. I am Life. I am the space in which all things happen. I am consciousness. I am the Now. I Am.

I wake up every day in order to do something that's quixotic, and not necessarily called for in the world, but I do it because there's extraordinary meaning for me behind the effort.

My heart forgives and releases. Inner peace is my goal.

Make a firm decision: 'Whatever happens, I will be happy. I will be strong. God is always with me.'

It is one thing to fall victim to the flood or to fall prey to cancer; it is another thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

Six-year-olds are very wrapped up in their own lives, and that's the way it should be.

It's nice to go back with people that you already trust.