If I had to fall from Cassiel's grace, at least I know it took a courtesan worthy of Kings to do it.

When Love cast me out, it was Cruelty who took pity upon me

There is no fulfillment that is not made sweeter for the prolonging of desire

To have a traitor for an ally is to have an enemy in waiting

Beauty is at its most poignant when the cold hand of Death holds poised to wither it imminently.

That which yields is not always weak.

Why is there ever this perverse cruelty in humankind, that makes us hurt most those we love best?

It's funny, how one can look back on a sorrow one thought one might well die of at the time, and know that one had not yet reckoned the tenth part of true grief.

All knowledge is worth having

The pain of the flesh is naught to that of the heart

And having once chosen, never to seek to return to the crossroads of that decision-for even if one chooses wrongly, the choice cannot be unmade.

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

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.

Debating whether one trusts or not is a sign that one does not want to trust at all, and therefore is still incapable of it.

Everything is connected. There is no such thing as an island, especially in our world, global village, the whole thing. Pollution from way across the ocean circulates in the air.

I already feel a bit annoyed at myself for writing screenplays. It's a bit, I don't know, model-singer-dancer-actress that went to a posh school. There's something too weirdly predictable about it.

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.

I spent the year behind on deadlines and everything else. It's only now in December that I feel even slightly caught up. 2016 has to be better.

Handel, to him I bow the knee.

A small country cannot contend with a great; the few cannot contend with the many; the weak cannot contend with the strong

Gratitude is the wine for the soul. Go on. Get drunk.