I gave up on the big screen. The Witching Hour was at Warner Bros. for 10 years and it just didn't work out.

"You're a perfect devil, Lestat!" he was saying. "That's what you are! You are the devil himself!"

As if it were our very birthright, which we could not come to grasp the meaning of until this time of middle life when we looked on only as many years ahead as already lay behind us.

My life's been too much of a self-created vocation. And there are times when I think I've done everything in the name of defiance.

When I write something, every word of it is meant. I can't say it enough.

That process by which you become a writer is a pretty lonely one. We don't have a group apprenticeship like a violinist might training for an orchestra.

Thank God he killed the guy. Oh, now, wait a minute. What kind of a prayer was that!