Sometimes fear is a warning. It's like someone putting a hand on your shoulder and saying Go No Farther.

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.

Full stories are as rare as honesty.

Strong jealousy in a beautiful love is the autumn in the middle of a hot summer!

We have all another or different Life and Free time.Jan Jansen

The dullest Olympic sport is curling, whatever 'curling' means.

The thrill of not knowing what's going to happen, trained me to be prepared for anything.

As we say in the sewer, time and tide wait for no man.

The cloven-foot of self-interest was now and then to be seen aneath the robe of public principle.

As water and fire oppose one another when combined, so are self-justification and humility opposed to one another.

I mean I hate to be conspiratorial, but I mean how do you move that many people from Central America across Mexico and then into the United States without there being a fairly coordinated effort?

The parallel existence and mutual interaction of "state" and "market" in the modern world create "political economy"; without both state and market there could be no political economy.