Maybe I'll obey the rules. Some of them, anyway, who knows? What are you going to do if I don't, by the way, and haven't I asked you this before?

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.

Music is the fertilizer for heart to bloom the flower of love and peace.

In the grand collage that is Dada, past and future are equally usable.

Finally, the president added, 'The American people are idealists, but they also want their leaders to be realistic...'

I got you open like supermarkets!

Love was like a toothache.

It doesn't matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I'm a woman or a man.

Each book I've done somehow finds its own unique form, a specific way it has to be written, and once I find it, I stick with it.

...a private who loses a rifle suffers far greater consequences than a general who loses a war.

Tone has the living soul.

I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background.