an intoxication with forbidden knowledge in which the natural things become unimportant.

The supernatural world has always been more real to me than the real world.

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

Let tears gather in your eyes. You haven’t tears enough for what you’ve done to me. Six more mortal years, seven, eight…I might have had that shape!’ Her pointed finger flew at Madeleine, whose hands had risen to her face, whose eyes were clouded over. Her moan was almost Claudia’s name. But Claudia did not hear her. ‘Yes, that shape, I might have known what it was to walk at your side.

As for oblivion, well, we can wait a little while for that.

To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself.

The thing should have plot and character, beginning, middle and end. Arouse pity and then have a catharsis. Those were the best principles I was ever taught.