The only pain in pleasure is the pleasure of the pain.

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.

It is often in the darkest skies that we see the brightest stars.

We are not panicking because we know that Islamic State cannot conquer the capital.

It's easy to forget people are blood and bone. They're not indestructible.

What the mind cannot retain, the body will have to endure.

Form follows failure.

We read the world - television, movies, songs, books - and the people in it through the lens of our own lives.

Man has been driven out of the paradise in which he could trust his instincts.

Some people play very, very well just so they won't get embarrassed.

Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.

There's nothing so passionate as a vested interest disguised as an intellectual conviction.