Whipping is fifty percent show and noise.

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.

We fellowship with God when we fellowship with people

And a man without memories is just a shell.

Productivity is driven at the enterprise level. Better wages, better performing workplaces, are driven at the workplace level.

Tim O'Brien's book about Vietnam, The Things They Carried, has won every award, is studied in college and is considered to be definitive. But it's fiction.

Suffering does not necessarily ennoble you.

I'm very much a relationship guy. I like to bounce ideas off the person that I love. I like having a real connection.

Successful organizations have one common central focus: Customers.

It is harder to kill a whisper than even a shouted calumny.

Cats do not keep the mice away; it is my belief that they preserve them for the chase.

The last time I saw Elvis was when I played my second New Years Eve show for him in 1970.