I was a newborn vampire, weeping at the beauty of the night.

Revenge is the concern of those who are at some point or other beaten. I am not beaten, I told myself. No, not beaten. And victory is far more interesting to contemplate than revenge.

We have to become saints. We have to become like Christ. Anything less is simply not enough.

Oh Lestat, you deserved everything that's ever happened to you. You better not die. You might actually go to hell.

But death we are, and death we've always been.

You are someone worth loving

It's an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater lustre to our colours, a richer resonance to our words.