It was as if I had only just been able to see colours and shapes for the first time. I was so enthralled with the buttons on Lestat's black coat that I looked at nothing else for a long time.

Don't be a fool for the Devil, darling.

And I realized that I’d tolerated him this long because of self-doubt.

The only power that exists is inside ourselves.

The world changes, we do not, therein lies the irony that kills us.

Let the flesh instruct the mind.

I was a newborn vampire, weeping at the beauty of the night.

It was as if when I looked into his eyes I was standing alone on the edge of the world...on a windswept ocean beach. There was nothing but the soft roar of the waves.

As if the night had said to me, ‘You are the night and the night alone understands you and enfolds you in its arms’ One with the shadows. Without nightmare. An inexplicable peace.

How pathetic it is to describe these things which can't truly be described.

And he would listen, making only a few comments, always sympathetic, so that when I left him I had the distinct impression he had solved everything for me.

In the half light of morning, in a world between the sheets I swear I saw her angel wing, my vision was completefrom TIGHTROPE - Stone Roses

For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received.

I feel like I'm truly and genuinely proud and unafraid. I'm not scared of who I am.

Some keep the Sabbath going to church, I keep it staying at home, with a bobolink for a chorister, and an orchard for a dome.

for in the absence of God he had found Man. Man killing man, man helping man, both of them anonymous: the scourge and the blessing.

Americans spend much of their adult lives paying taxes in various forms. We should end this practice of paying a tax that is triggered only by debt.

Mercy?” “Just a minute,” I told Adam. “I'm in the middle of a revelation.

I make it a personal rule never to do anything that I don't really care about. It is surprising how much this cuts out.

Alexander was not the first Greek to be honoured as a god for political favour.

The needs of others are ever present, and each of us can do something to help someone.... Unless we lose ourselves in service to others, there is little purpose to our own lives.