It was over now, and the meaningless world was tolerable and need not be explained. And never would it be, and how foolish I had ever been to think so.

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.

They drink from streams whose waters taste like tears, and indeed each swallow fills them with a few heartbeats of deep sadness.

Written words are divine footprints on earth.

I believe things cannot make themselves impossible.

I have a lot of energy after 2 A.M. I like to sleep in the morning. I have some problems at the start of the day.

Lord, save all the elect, and then elect some more.

The first thing the world does to a genius is to make him lose all his youth.

I'm certainly not very book smart, but I started traveling at 16, and it has enriched me in ways I could never begin to explain.

Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly.

Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men.

The definition of indecent – when it’s in long, and it’s in hard, and it’s in deep – it’s in decent.