It's an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater lustre to our colours, a richer resonance to our words.

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.

Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.

Our tears are trying to serve a purpose, but we rarely let them. I don't know how we got started with subverting that purpose.

The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand. We listen to reply.

Who am I? I am not nothing but this moment in the flow of life. This flow of life is not in my control

Rosies mother was a highly strung bundle of barely thought-through prejudices, worries and feuds.

How unlucky that you should have a reasonable answer to give, and that I should be so reasonable as to admit it!

Not only can consumers handle their personal genetic information, but they are getting genomically oriented and anchored about such data.

If a jerk burns the flag, America is not threatened, democracy is not under siege, freedom is not at risk.

Judging a person does not define who they are. It defines who you are

I think all of this—The Roots and DJing included—was meant to prepare me for The Tonight Show.