And I loved this moment for all it's pain...We seemed for a moment like two parts of the same thing.

My conscience is killing me, isn't it? And when you're immortal that can be a really long and ignominious death

Memnoch the Devil happen to be my favorite of all The Vampire Chronicles.

When you think night and day and every moment only of pleasing me, things will be very easy for you.

My faith in Christ is central to my life. My conversion from a pessimistic atheist lost in a world I didn't understand, to an optimistic believer in a universe created and sustained by a loving God is crucial to me. But following Christ does not mean following His followers. Christ is infinitely more important than Christianity and always will be, no matter what Christianity is, has been, or might become.

Lestat: I despise you! I ought to destroy you-finish what I started when I made you. Turn you into ashes and sift them through my hands. You know that I could do it! Like that! Like the snap of mortal fingers, I could do it. Burn you as I burnt your little house. And nothing could save you, nothing at all.

First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success.