What is written beneath this heavy handsome book cover will count, so sayeth this cover.

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.

The very first video experience I had was in high school. They brought a black-and-white closed-circuit surveillance camera into the classroom. I will never forget, as a kid, looking at that image.

The hardest thing about life is that every now and then you have to do things so you have something to tweet about.

I love you because you're a child and you're scared.' You're going to hurt me in the end. You're quite mad.

When public virtue is gone, when the national spirit is fled the republic is lost in essence, though it may still exist in form

Your body is the house you live in. If you destroy it...you have to leave!

Discipline is the path to happiness.

Oh, I'm so inadequate. And I love myself!.

I do think there are certain times we should infringe on your freedom.

It doesn't matter how you live and die, it's how the bards wrote it down.

I have always cautioned partners that I considered three years a minimum in determining whether we were "performing".