The vampires have always been metaphors for me. They've always been vehicles through which I can express things I have felt very, very deeply.

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.

Be the initiator of things you wish to see, but can’t see. Be the originator of things you wish you feel but can’t feel.

When you you see no positive change take care of a negative change.

People love to watch a train wreck, I suppose.

I just feel like I'm the luckiest person in the world being able to do what I love and be able to do it all day every day if I like, you know, I mean it's great, I love it.

I abominate any organization that denies cats are people!

Free downloads is something that I like to do its just not as publicised and it is the future of music.

The world needs a strong America.

Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.

The lesson you have to learn as novelist is how to be collaborative, and how to say, "I don't get to dictate this."

Who would be so mocked with glory, or to live But in a dream of friendship, To have his pomp and all what state compounds But only painted, like his varnished friends?