I read The Old Curiosity Shop before I began Blackwood Farm. I was amazed at the utter madness in that book.

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.

It is good to focus, but never forget to look around. If you focus on the wrong target, you may miss seeing all of the beauty around you.

She had the prettiest eyes & prettiest smile withWounds on her heart and bruises on her soul~

When you are fitted in a racing car and you race to win, second or third place is not enough.

My true church is a whorehouse – the only one that gives me true satisfaction.

Whenever I was upset by something in the papers, [Jack] always told me to be more tolerant, like a horse flicking away flies in the summer.

I'm easy. Put me in an interesting location with good people and I'm there.

Your perception of the world around you is not necessarily the same as what is actually occurring.

Any good that comes our way doesn't come to us solely because we have done something good, but because God is good.

Our fears are always more numerous than our dangers.

If human life were long enough to find the ultimate theory, everything would have been solved by previous generations. Nothing would be left to be discovered.