We are not damned. We never were. Who under the sun has the right to damn any living breathing creature?

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.

Whatever excites you, go do it. Whatever drains you, stop doing it.

Socialism and capitalism are both essentially materialist, just different ways of approaching the lifeless world of matter and deciding how to share the spoils.

Tough like a Ukulele.

It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.

I enjoy doing things that involve research because it's part of what I enjoy about acting.

I'd let my golden chances pass me by.

The only way to deep happiness is to do something you love to the best of your ability

My old man never liked me. He gave me my allowance in traveler's checks.

I like throwing snowballs at small children.

A book is judged, not by its reference to life, but by its reference to other books.