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

The finest thing under the sun and moon is the human soul. I marvel at the small miracles of kindness that pass between humans, I marvel at the growth of conscience, at the persistence of reason in the face of all superstition or despair. I marvel at human endurance.

This evil, this concept, it comes from disappointment, from bitterness! Don't you see? Children of Satan! Children of God! Is this the only question you bring to me, is this the only power that obsesses you, so that you must make us gods and devils yourself when the only power that exists is inside ourselves? How could you believe in these old fantastical lies, these myths, these emblems of the supernatural?

I assume as a child Jesus had to learn how to do carpentry, learn Torah, learn all the things a human child had to learn. If He was human in all ways except that He did not sin, this must have been the case.

Our language needs endless synonyms for beautiful; the eyes could see what the tongue cannot possibly describe.

We need to stop fighting Christian against Christian. I have no time for anything but trying to love other people. That is a full-time job.

The most difficult novel I have had to write in terms of just getting it done was The Vampire Lestat. It took a year to write.