Your love to others, and their love for you, that the increase of love in life itself around you, is what matters.

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.

In this storyI am the poetYou're the poetry.

Don't leave anything for anyone who is eventually going to leave you.

Unworthy as I am, he allowed me to go to heaven, and I know the next time I go there, I’ll stay.

Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.

Unity is strength... when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved.

My mom and my dad were both very sociable, meeting lots of interesting people.

I'm sophisticated, charming, suave, and debonair, Professor. But I have never claimed to be civilized.

Childhood is frequently a solemn business for those inside it.

A good number of works owe their success to the mediocrity of their authors' ideas, which match the mediocrity of those of the general public.

Sit up straight, listen and participate.