The fact that I loved you was the greatest lie I have ever lived.

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.

Today was the end of freedom. High school had fallen behind

Her eyes felt swollen, and she knew she looked a mess, but sometimes...sometimes the emotions were just too big to hold.

Architecture is a result of a process of asking questions and testing them and re-interrogating and changing in a repetitive way.

Don't be mysterious; there isn't the time.

If you have only a little ray of light, show out distinctly that you are for Him.

Works of art produced in the contemporary world are a further expression of that. But I don't think there is an active, ongoing nihilist self-consciousness in the artist.

I would vote against anything that grants amnesty because I think it destroys your ability to enforce the existing law

Imagine what could be accomplished if only the human race would shed its humanity.

I'm not going to make a present of Santa.

These moments of inner quiet will burn out all obstacles without fail. Don't doubt its efficacy. Try it.