Phil was mumbling that Reuben might become a writer after all and writers had a way of "redeeming everything that ever happens to them.

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.

You can't fail when it is not an option.

Death and ruin is man's preferred ecosystem.

When people have tried everything and have discovered that nothing works, they will tend to revert to what they know best—which will often be the tribe, the totem, or the taboo.

There is a tendency in nature to the continued progression of certain classes of varieties further and further from the original type.

I don't really know who I am as an actor: the best thing would be to experiment with it for the next 30 years and never really find out.

I say that I played a doorstop in Dune because I remember standing around a lot. I was down there for months.

In capitalist history, invasion and class struggle are not opposites, as the official legend would have us believe, but one is the means and the expression of the other.

I work hard. I like to practice. I like to win. I want to be the best.

Four D's of Disconnection: 1. Diagnosis (judgment, analysis, criticism, comparison); 2. Denial of Responsibility; 3. Demand; 4. 'Deserve' oriented language.

This has been a wonderful life, absolutely terrific. There are very few things that I would go back and do differently, if I had that control.