To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner.

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.

Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass

I do not fear the nightWhen I know that todayI am bathed in a lightIt cannot be stolen away

Focus on the systematic process and the things you have control.

Anyone who thinks he's too small to make a difference has never been bit by a mosquito", I'd tell people.

An effective leader is also an effective listener.

People are so afraid of authority figures and doctors are authority figures.

I really thought twice about the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame when that came in. I always was of a mind that it's an inherently stupid idea to put something like that in a glass case.

Pray that I would keep my focus on the Lord, no matter what.

The photographer and the director are where reality and fantasy meet.

But not like this: not with the house just an afterimage, and my mom a spirit, and my dad...recycled." "Carter Kane, Chapter 41