What is written beneath this heavy handsome book cover will count, so sayeth this cover.

In the chapel you prayed to be a saint and now I will make you a god.

Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty.

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.

When you find out there is no ultimate good and evil in which you can place your faith, the world does not fall apart at the seams. It simply means that every decision is more difficult, more critical, because you are creating the good and evil yourself and they are very real.

God, what is it like to be You and hear all those people all the time everywhere, begging, imploring, calling out for anything and anyone?

That was my nature - going from temptation after temptation, not to sin, but to be redeemed.