I've lived all these years among those who create nothing and change nothing, ' I said. 'Actors and musicians-they're saints to me.

Oh Lestat, you deserved everything that's ever happened to you. You better not die. You might actually go to hell.

As for oblivion, well, we can wait a little while for that.

Maybe a new religion will rise now. Maybe without it, man will crumble in cynicism and selfishness because he really needs his gods.

I never lie, " I said offhand. "At least not to those I don't love.

It has its dark splendor, to walk the nightmare terrain forever.

A singer can shatter glass with the proper high note, " he said, "but the simplest way to break glass is simply to drop it on the floor.

If goodness does exist, then I'm the opposite of it. I'm evil, and I revel in it

We are the things that others fear, " I said. "Remember that.

You're the hunter, the warrior. You're stronger than anyone else here, that's your tragedy.

No one is safe from nature's savagery, not even the innocent. Only beauty is consistent. Gabrielle envisions a time when the Savage Garden will overtake civilizations and destroy it.

Memories are like a box full of chocolates, you can't have them all at once.

The earliest childhood memories are woven by shadows. And some of these shadows are woven from fire.

Most people spend their entire life imprisoned within the confines of their own thoughts. They never go beyond a narrow, mind-made, personalized sense of self that is conditioned by the past.

Because God loves us, he gives us practical teaching and boundaries to protect our hearts. The whole thing is one big expression of a father's love for his children.

Good rule to follow: never reward someone's incivility by giving them the headline they seek.

It's easy enough to plan jobs, to plan a lot of work.

I'm a big advocate of music being an honest representation of who you are as a person and your perspective.

A writer in someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him who he is.

[Sexual abuse] is such a sharp, potent topic that we really should have discussions about more openly and more often.

Nothing lasts in New York. Everything's always changing in really obvious ways.