The most difficult novel I have had to write in terms of just getting it done was The Vampire Lestat. It took a year to write.

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.

But, over time, grief fades. And so did my lust for vengeance.

LEGACY plays an important role in defining a good leader at any age.

Throw away the servility of imitation, and rise to the manliness of originality.

Healthy people can own their mistakes and, over time, move on.

A fool believes that the society of the future will transcend the laws of economics. A person of reason hopes that it will finally learn to respect them.

Human intellect is incurably abstract.

Things have to be done fast in America , and therefore therapy has to be brief.

The best thing you can do is just go and have fun with [competition].

Live the Life you'd be envious of if you saw someone else living it.

The best lesson we can teach our children is to have fun. It's infectious, it's contagious.