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

We need to stop fighting Christian against Christian. I have no time for anything but trying to love other people. That is a full-time job.

The most difficult novel I have had to write in terms of just getting it done was The Vampire Lestat. It took a year to write.

Dickens is a very underrated writer at the moment. Everyone in his time admired him but I think right now he's not spoken of enough.

You reach deep down and bring up what feels absolutely authentic to you as you move along with the book, but you don't know everything about it. You can't.

Ah, come now. I look like an angel, but I'm not. The old rules of nature encompass many creatures like me. We're beautiful like the diamond-backed snake, or the striped tiger, yet we're merciless killers

Invest in a feather duster - the possibilities are endless.