The highest truths a person could discover were rooted in the natural world.

A perfectly evil Devil makes even less sense than a perfect God.

Because,” she said, “that is what men would call it. They invented Satan, didn’t they? Satanic is merely the name they give to the behavior of those who would disrupt the orderly way in which...

No one is safe from nature’s savagery,not even the innocent. Only beauty is consistent. Gabrielle envisions a time when the Savage Garden will overtake civilizations and destroy it.

I will be the Vampire Lestat for all to see. A symbol, a freak of nature – something loved, something despised all of those things. I tell you I can’t give it up. I can’t...

The characters are copyrighted. It upsets me terribly to even think about fan fiction with my characters.

Invest in a feather duster – the possibilities are endless.

…what was the good of being a movie werewolf? You howled at the moon; you couldn’t remember what you did, and then somebody shot you.

First time my master’s in English literature ever proved useful.

I drank, sucking the blood out of the holes, experiencing for the first time since infancy the special pleasure of sucking nourishment, the body focused with the mind upon one vital source.

Being a vampire for him meant revenge. Revenge against life itself. Every time he took a life it was revenge. It was no wonder, then, that he appreciated nothing. The nuances of vampire existence weren’t...

Paris was a universe whole and entire unto herself, hollowed and fashioned by history; so she seemed in this age of Napoleon III with her towering buildings, her massive cathedrals, her grand boulevards and ancient...

Merciful death, how you love your precious guilt.

Speak to me of the dark gifts, I use them, I`m gentleman death in silk and lace, come to put out the candles.

There may be writing groups where people meet but it’s occasional. You really do it all at your own computer or your own typewriter by yourself.

What is fear after all? It is indecision. You seek some way to resist, escape. There is none.

Memory was a curse, yes, he thought, but it was also the greatest gift. Because if you lost memory you lost everything.

The sky was growing dangerously light when I left Lestat and made my way to the secret place, below an abandoned building where I kept the iron coffin in which I lie.This is no unusual...

Let tears gather in your eyes. You haven’t tears enough for what you’ve done to me. Six more mortal years, seven, eight…I might have had that shape!’ Her pointed finger flew at Madeleine, whose hands...

The most important trait of a writer is an authentic voice. Writers have to have faith in their own voice, and their own way of doing things. Originality is the gem that every writer possesses....

I’m definitely more influenced by European writers than I am by American writers, there’s no doubt about that.

I can’t get very far away from Christianity, I can’t get very far away from the angels and the saints. I work them in always, in some way.

The thing should have plot and character, beginning, middle and end. Arouse pity and then have a catharsis. Those were the best principles I was ever taught.

How could anyone love Him? What did you just tell me yourself about the world? Don’t you see, everybody hates God now. It’s not that God is dead in the twentieth century. It’s that everybody...

And then it was, that grief and pain made themselves known to me as never before. Note this, because I knew the full absurdity of Fate and Fortune and Nature more truly than a human...

Evil is a point of view … God kills, and so shall we; indiscriminately … for no creatures under God are as we are, none so like Him as ourselves.God kills indiscriminately and so shall...

You see that old woman? That will never happen to you. You will never grow old, and you will never die.And it means something else too, doesn’t it? I shall never ever grow up.

What does all this mean finally, I kept asking like a college kid. Why does it make me want to cry? Maybe it’s that we are all outsiders, we are all making our own unusual...

Killing is no ordinary act,’ said the vampire. ‘One doesn’t simply glut oneself on blood.’ He shook his head. ‘It is the experience of another’s life for certain, and often the experience of the loss...

This musical is the fulfillment of my deepest dreams. Elton’s music and Bernie’s lyrics have captured the pain and the passion of the characters perfectly, and the entire adaptation has re-created the very essence of...

It is tragic that many in America think of us – Christians – as being people who hate others.

Go where the pain is, go where the pleasure is.

How pathetic it is to describe these things which can’t truly be described.

And you are with us and one of us, and we are the people of the moon and the stars.

I wish I could,” laughed the vampire. “How positively delightful. I should like to pass through all manner of different keyholes and feel the tickle of their peculiar shapes. No.” He shook his head. “That...

Love me. You have destroyed everything! But if you love me, it can all be restored in a new form. Love me.

In spite of all the refinements of society that conspired to make art ”» the dizzying perfection of the string quartet or the sprawling grandeur of Fragonard ‘ s canvases ”» beauty was savage. It...

“I want to know, for example, why beauty exists,” she said, “why nature continues to contrive it, and what is the link between the life of a lightning storm with the feelings these things inspire...

What I did was take the Jesus of the Gospels, the Son of God, the Son of the Virgin Mary, and sought to make Him utterly believable, a vital breathing character.

All my life,I’ve been afraid of things, as a child and a woman must be. I lied about it naturally. I fancied myself a witch and walked in dark streets to punish myself for my...

Without memory there can be no insight. Without love, there can be no appreciation.

In his refusal to believe in anything supernatural or inherently evil, he was as unrealistic as an old voodoo queen who sees spirits everywhere.

I never changed after that. I sought for nothing in the one great source of change which is humanity. And even in my love and absorption with the beauty of the world, I sought to...

I’m speaking of the character of human beings, not what they believe in. I’m speaking of those who won’t accept a useless life just because they were born to it. I mean those who would...

We have to become saints. We have to become like Christ. Anything less is simply not enough.

I can’t keep up with Stephen King’s output.

Would that death were like this. Would that one would sleep and sleep and sleep forever.

And this time as the lashes come, try to think about the pain, instead of against it, because there is not one single aspect of life, past, present, or future, that does not tear your...

Is there any one of us who doesn’t want to strike back at all the evil in this world?

Heaven would be Hell in no time if every cruel, selfish, vicious soul went to Heaven.