-You are on the verge of being truly mad. -No, not at all. Look at me. I can tie my shoelaces. See?

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.

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.

When you think night and day and every moment only of pleasing me, things will be very easy for you.

The happiest moment i've ever felt was that moment when i discovered my ability to create.

Words are life. Carefully choose your words.

Fading from consciousness is the fact that we all needed help in the beginning

I always question whether it's the right time for anything I do.

There's a difference between quittin and knowin when you're beat.

Just being a Negro doesn't qualify you to understand the race situation any more than being sick makes you an expert on medicine.

Every nation in every region now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists.

My father would lift me high. And dance with my mother and me and then. Spin me around til I fell asleep. Then up the stairs he would carry me and I knew for sure I was loved.

I'm responsible. I even did a commercial for MTV saying how I was going to register to vote. And I still haven't.

I just want to have a great relationship with my child and have a great family dynamic.