You can look at the New York Times Bestseller List and you can be pretty sure that the writers on that list don't know each other very well.

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.

Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.

I'd just done the most important thing a person can ever do. I'd made life. At the very instant he was put into my arms, I loved this new person more than anyone but a mother can understand.

There's never going to be someone else, " he says, shaking his head. "You've wrecked me. I wouldn't be any good to anybody now—except for you.

My difficulties belong to me!

There must exist a paradigm, a practical model for social change that includes an understanding of ways to transform consciousness that are linked to efforts to transform structures.

At least when you're young you're also stupid.

Tis a sort of coquetry to boast that we never coquet.

There is nothing wrong with compromising. Even if you compromise almost everything.

To me, it's like happiness is about happiness, but happiness is a fight.

As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger.