I love New Orleans physically. I love the trees and the balmy air and the beautiful days. I have a beautiful house here.

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.

Writers are like supreme beings. We can create worlds in a matter of days and we can destroy them just as fast.

[Milton] calls the university "A stony-hearted step-mother."

I like getting carried away by what is happening and then decide each scene based on the actors, the set and the light.

If a law were passed giving six months to every writer of a first book, only the good ones would do it.

I don't like to treat a piece of clothing like an object of art because I don't consider myself an artist. I'm a designer.

I became the stage for the great argument between Nietzsche and Rousseau. I was the extra ready to take on all the roles.

Your circumstances may be uncongenial, but they shall not long remain so if you but perceive an Ideal and strive to reach it.

I'm the unknown everyone's already sick of.

I think the artists of the recession will end up being a very strong force in the future. They learned about survival.

I have no fans. You know what I got? Customers. And customers are your friends.