We breathe the light, we breathe the music, we breathe the moment as it passes through us.

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 is like a trumpet - if you don't put anything into it, you don't get anything out of it.

I think every intelligent woman should have a career.

One thing I've always been grateful for is the diversity of my listeners.

When I was growing up in the United States and Sweden, I never thought about becoming a politician.

Saints and ordinary folks are the same from the start. Inquiring about a difference is like asking to borrow string when you've got a good strong rope. Every Dharma is known in the heart.

The chastisement of our peace was upon Him and with His stripes we are healed.

Ignorance makes for weakness and fear; knowledge gives strength and confidence. Nothing surprises an intellect that knows all things with a sense of discrimination.

I don't think there's anything exceptional or noble in being philanthropic. It's the other attitude that confuses me.

Be creative. Use your voice, your community.

Heaven is high and earth wide. If you ride three feet higher above the ground than other men, you will know what that means.