Vampires pretending to be humans pretending to be vampires ... How avant-garde!

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.

Knowledge is a destination. Truth, the journey.

Dozens of days, experiences, and encounters have set me on a path I never dreamed possible.

Never take your loved ones for granted. You might lose them in a split of second and never got a chance to say good-bye.

Wisdom is in uniconsciousness.

Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures.

In its Roman-era setting, for example, Christianity was so different that critics of the time referred to it as a "superstition" (meaning a bogus or dangerous religion).

To philosophize with open eyes is to philosophize in the dark. Only the blind can look straight at the sun.

It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.

Have you ever studied a snake's face? - how optimistic they look. They have an eternal smile.

When griping grief the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind opresses, then music, with her silver sound, with speedy help doth lend redress.