The young know how truly difficult and dreadful youth can be. Their youth is wasted on everyone else, that's the horror. The young have no authority, no respect.

My life's been too much of a self-created vocation. And there are times when I think I've done everything in the name of defiance.

His blood coursed through my veins sweeter than life itself. And as it did, Lestats words made sense to me. I knew peace only when I killed and when I heard his heart in that terrible rhythm, I knew again what peace could be.

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 miss. And quite frankly I am not in the least afraid." - Lestat, The Vampire Lestat, p. 532

He had never expected death to be this quiet, this secretive, this easy.

Say what you will to the force that governs the universe. Perhaps we'll call it into being, and it will yet love us as we love it.

A singer can shatter glass with the proper high note," he said, "but the simplest way to break glass is simply to drop it on the floor.