I allowed myself to forget how totally I had fallen in love with Lestat's iridescent eyes, that I'd sold my soul for a many-colored and luminescent thing, thinking that a highly reflective surface conveyed the power to walk on water.

A starving child is a frightful sight. A starving vampire, even worse.

People write to me all the time to tell me that "homosexuality is an abomination." They base this on a quote in Leviticus. I think the Bible has proved to be a very mysterious and dangerous document.

I tell you, we would be hard put to determine what is more evil -- religion or the pure idea. The intervention of the supernatural or the elegant abstract solution! Both have bathed this earth in suffering; both have brought the human race literally and figuratively to its knees.

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.

The most difficult novel I have had to write in terms of just getting it done was The Vampire Lestat. It took a year to write.

Come on, say it again. I'm a perfect devil. Tell me how bad I am. It makes me feel so good!