Phil was mumbling that Reuben might become a writer after all and writers had a way of "redeeming everything that ever happens to them.

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

Every moment must be first known and then savored.

Suppose death had a heart to love and to release you, to whom would he turn this passion, would you chose a person from the crowd there. A person to suffer as you suffer.

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.

I know nothing, because I know too much, and understand not nearly enough and never will.

I loved words. I love to sing them and speak them and even now, I must admit, I have fallen into the joy of writing them.