Suffering of sentient beings is like decay; it fertilizes the growth of their souls.

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.

to spoil in the borrowed time of denial is a liar to its self. and yourself, to banish the seeds of time is fruitful to be honest to one’s self.

There’s no matter here you can’t re-matter into love.

Attachment leads to suffering.

I can drink like a fish, or at least, someone born with fetal alcohol syndrome.

We must remember that [Albert] Camus wrote not even a third of what he had wished to.

Be willing to lose a battle in order to win the war.

I'm listening to a lot of oldies.A lot of Al Green, Marvin Gaye. Luther Vandross... they were some of my icons.

Even drunk, I knew any escape plan that involved going to Detroit, Michigan, was a harbinger of doom.

I'm getting too old to play some parts, but I'm still greedy

An erring colleague is not an Amalkite to be smitten hip and thigh.