No one is safe from nature's savagery, not even the innocent. Only beauty is consistent. Gabrielle envisions a time when the Savage Garden will overtake civilizations and destroy it.

Oh Lestat, you deserved everything that's ever happened to you. You better not die. You might actually go to hell.

As for oblivion, well, we can wait a little while for that.

Maybe a new religion will rise now. Maybe without it, man will crumble in cynicism and selfishness because he really needs his gods.

I never lie, " I said offhand. "At least not to those I don't love.

I've lived all these years among those who create nothing and change nothing, ' I said. 'Actors and musicians-they're saints to me.

It has its dark splendor, to walk the nightmare terrain forever.

A singer can shatter glass with the proper high note, " he said, "but the simplest way to break glass is simply to drop it on the floor.

If goodness does exist, then I'm the opposite of it. I'm evil, and I revel in it

We are the things that others fear, " I said. "Remember that.

You're the hunter, the warrior. You're stronger than anyone else here, that's your tragedy.

Apart from my absolute belief in National Socialism and my conviction of Hitler's superhuman heroism, I had always been attracted to Germany.

Eventually we will find (mostly in retrospect, of course) that we can be very grateful to those people who have made life most difficult for us.

That's the problem with the American position; they think that they are the police of the world.

I do not believe any of the statistical claims that are made about public opinion. I don't see why anybody does.

Our seeing is sexual initially.

One day some as yet unborn scholar will recognize in the clock the machine that has tamed the wilds.

Where are the feasts we were promised? Where is the wine, the new wine, dying on the vine.

Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.

My vision is to inspire others to find purpose and happiness.

Love is that which exists to do good, not merely to get good.