What if I could give you your life back; pluck out the pain; and give you a world of unimaginable beauty that would be for all time.

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.

Faith looks to God, hopes in God, and believes in His promises, regardless of our actual circumstances.

Pray more often and read and obey The Holy Scriptures in The Holy Bible.

Humanity is defined by its struggles, not doomed by them. It is in the way we endure those struggles that we transcend our lower nature and enter a higher realm.

When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool, you end up sounding like a moron instead.

So we might say that the most important thing one can acquire in college is a well-functioning bullshit meter.

Do not neglect secret prayer, for it is the soul of religion.

Today I set my mind and heart on a new path. I focus my energy on love, appreciation, and my highest possibilities.

Let others seek renown in arms; For me wine's wars have greater charms: Then fill the bowl, boy; fill it high: 'Tis better drunk, than dead to lie.

You live your life between your ears.

A salary was not sufficient for me.