I never lie," I said offhand. "At least not to those I don't love.

….it was a brave man’s fear. I knew what he meant. What must a brave general feel when he knows the battle has gone against him and nothing remains but death?

The truth is most women are weak, be they mortal or immortal. But when they are strong, they are absolutely unpredictable.

I was particularly stunned by the casting of Cruise, who is no more my Vampire Lestat than Edward G. Robinson is Rhett Butler.

A starving child is a frightful sight. A starving vampire, even worse.

The human heart is my school.

It was over now, and the meaningless world was tolerable and need not be explained. And never would it be, and how foolish I had ever been to think so.