The evil of one murder is infinite, and my guilt is like my beauty - eternal. I cannot be forgiven, for there is no one to forgive me for all I've done.

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.

Right now I’m having amnesia and déjà vu at the same time. I think I’ve forgotten this before.

Joy, joy, joy!Past ages crowd on thee, but each one remembers, And the future is dark, and the present is spread, Like a pillow of thorns for thy slumberless head.

The ignorance we’re ignorant of is the ignorance most difficult to remedy.

Skin color doesn't make you different, " Melody said. "We're all the same on the inside."The only people who ever say that, " Raymond replied, "are white.

The nature of technology depends very much upon what the public can be induced to put up with.

That's what my books are, now that I'm a grownup - mosaics of jokes.

The stimulus was a case of political patronage, corporate welfare, and cronyism at their worst.

Women are free in the Islamic Republic in the selection of their activities and their future and their clothing.

A car's not the right place for showing off to a girl—the bed's the place for that. The consequences of a mistake there are more upsetting, but less tragic.

Theatre is a mirror, a sharp reflection of society. The greatest playwrights are moralists.