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.

I feel like an outsider, and I always will feel like one. I've always felt that I wasn't a member of any particular group.

I gave up on the big screen. The Witching Hour was at Warner Bros. for 10 years and it just didn't work out.

We live in a world full of accidents finally in which on aesthetic principles have a consistency of which we can be sure. Right and wrong we will struggle with forever striving to create and maintain an ethical balance. Right and wrong we will struggle with forever, striving to create and maintain an ethical balance; but the shimmer of summer rain under the street lamps or the great flashing glare of artillery against a night sky – such brutal beauty is beyond dispute.

… in the relentless and meaningless manner one searches for something in a nightmare, coming on doors that won’t open or drawers that won’t shut, struggling over and over against the same meaningless thing, not knowing why the effort seems so desperate, why the sudden sight of a chair with a shawl thrown over it inspires the mind with horror.

"You're a perfect devil, Lestat!" he was saying. "That's what you are! You are the devil himself!"

Sometimes dreams show me that my writing should go deeper. Dreams have not so much changed my work as deepened it.