In the name of Christ, I quit Christianity.

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.

If art is the bridge between what you see in your mind and what the world sees, then skill is how you build that bridge.

I figured that maybe he was only hanging around for the tea and tobacco and when one ran out, so would he.

Climate change is the greatest threat of our time.

You know you can't hope yourself a better life - you must take yourself there.

Education, however indispensable in a cultivated age, produces nothing on the side of genius. When education ends, genius often begins.

Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

As the weeks and months unfolded, we realized that we were the victims of a broken promise.

The test of a writer is whether you want to read him again years after he should by the rules be dated.

If you torture the data long enough, it will confess.

The dust comes secretly day after day, Lies on my ledge and dulls my shining things. But O this dust I shall drive away Is flowers and kings, Is Solomon's temple, poets, Nineveh.