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.

We breathe the light, we breathe the music, we breathe the moment as it passes through us.

I claim Dickens as a mentor. He's my teacher. He's one of my driving forces.

A singer can shatter glass with the proper high note," he said, "but the simplest way to break glass is simply to drop it on the floor.

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.

The human heart is my school.

I am the Vampire Lestat. I'm immortal more or less. The light of the sun, the sustained heat of an intense fire-these things might destroy me. But then again, they might not.