And I realized that I’d tolerated him this long because of self-doubt.

I find at moments I'm as fragile as glass.

That is the crowning evil, that we can even go so far as to love each other, you and I. And who else would show us a particle of love, a particle of compassion or mercy? Who else, knowing us as we know each other, could do anything but destroy us? Yet we can love each other.

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.

I broke with my religion in college.

But the sky was never quite the same shade of blue again.

I am not times fool, nor a god hardened by the millennia; I am not the trickster in the black cape nor the sorrowful wanderer. I have a conscience. I know right from wrong I know what I do and yes, I do it. I am the Vampire Lestat. That's your answer do with it as you will.