There was no point in waiting until the next world. You had to do everything now, every kind of sin.

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.

Now, five years is nothing in a man's life except when he is very young and very old...- Wang Lung

If you have learnt enjoying life without purpose, like a flowing river, you have learnt the art of living.

People don't very much like things that are beautiful - they are so far from their nasty little minds.

The man who invented instant pudding was moved to action by an inability to wait for pudding.

God is the celebrity author of the world's best seller. We have made god into the biggest celebrity of all, to contain our own emptiness.

Who is his manager? Milton Bradley.

My favorite color is rainbow.

You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right.

I'm pretty fortunate that I'm in the films I'm in largely because the directors have asked me to be in them. I'd love to do more of them, but the writing and historical stuff I'll probably always do.

There is no easy path leading out of life, and few are the easy ones that lie within it.