The spirit who inhabits her animates us all. Destroy the host, you destroy the power. The young die first; the old wither slowly; the eldest perhaps would go last. But she is the Queen of the Damned, and the Damned can't live without her.

I will be the Vampire Lestat for all to see. A symbol, a freak of nature - something loved, something despised all of those things. I tell you I can't give it up. I can't miss. And quite frankly I am not in the least afraid." - Lestat, The Vampire Lestat, p. 532

I don't like myself you know. I love myself. I'm devoted to myself till my dying day. But I don't like myself.

when we are weary, we speak lovingly of dreams as if they embodied our true deisres-What we WOULD have when that which we DO have so sorely disappoints us

I stumble through a carnival of horrors

I left Christianity because I wanted to be a moral person. That is why I left. I no longer believed in its lies.

Your love to others, and their love for you, that the increase of love in life itself around you, is what matters.