Memory was a curse, yes, he thought, but it was also the greatest gift. Because if you lost memory you lost everything.

All the mortal world is a lethal enemy during those hours between dawn and dusk.

My efforts with Hollywood are like things written in water.

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.

Heaven would be Hell in no time if every cruel, selfish, vicious soul went to Heaven.

Claudia... you've been a very very naughty little girl.

And then it was, that grief and pain made themselves known to me as never before. Note this, because I knew the full absurdity of Fate and Fortune and Nature more truly than a human can bear to know it. And perhaps the description of this, brief as it is, may give consolation to another. The worst takes its time to come, and then to pass. The truth is, you cannot prepare anyone for this, nor convey an understanding of it through language. It must be known. And this I would wish on no one in the world.