"You're a perfect devil, Lestat!" he was saying. "That's what you are! You are the devil himself!"
Anne RiceSometimes fear is a warning. It's like someone putting a hand on your shoulder and saying Go No Farther.
Anne RiceGive me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a very dangerous enemy indeed.
Anne Riceโฆbeing an atheist required discipline very like that of being Catholic. One could never yield to the idea of a supernatural authority, no matter how often one might be tempted. To think that a personal God had made the world was to yield to a demonic and superstitious and destructive belief.
Anne Rice