Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ASK. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds.

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.

There's no God higher than truth.

Every increase in knowledge requires an increase in wisdom

It is better to dream big and get half of it, then dream small and get all of it.

Beauty endures only for as long as it can be seen; goodness, beautiful today, will remain so tomorrow.

Conflict is drama, and how people deal with conflict shows you the kind of people they are.

People are very interested in having access to wireless data while they are on a plane.

All things considered, I'd rather be in Philadelphia

Supporting segregation need not be racist. One can believe in segregation and believe in equality of the races.

The discussing the characters and foibles of common friends is a great sweetness and cement of friendship.