Whatever will happen will happen, but choose your companions with care. Choose them because you like to look at them and you like the sound of their voices, and they have profound secrets in them that you wish to know. In other words, choose them because you love them. Otherwise you will not be able to bear their company for very long.

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.

We're frightened of what makes us different.

And when a strong man is sweet, even Goddesses look down from Mount Olympus.

Aren't there gradations of evil? Is evil a great perilous gulf into which one falls with the first sin, plummeting to the depth?

I was typing away while everybody was dropping acid and smoking grass. I was known as my own square.

And I loved this moment for all it's pain...We seemed for a moment like two parts of the same thing.