The world doesn't need any more mediocrity or hedged bets.

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.

By the way, you don't need the makeup." Puck said.

Nothing in this universe is complex to understand than the universe itself. Everything else is as frugal as a cold wave.

If you judge the character, you cant play it.

Encountering sufferings will definitely contribute to the elevation of your spiritual practice, provided you are able to transform calamity and misfortune into the path.

Corporations are economic entities, to be sure, but they are also social institutions that must justify their existence by their overall contribution to society.

To have properly studied the liberal sciences gives a polish to our manners, and removes all awkwardness.

What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error.

Marriages don't last. When I meet a guy, the first question I ask myself is: is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?

...[We] must stop these swarms of Jews who are trading, bartering and robbing.