I find at moments I'm as fragile as glass.

I kept glancing at him and away from him, as if his green eyes were hurting me. In modern parlance he was a laser beam. Deadly and delicate he seemed. His victims had always loved him. And I had always loved him, hadn't I, no matter what happened, and how strong could love grow if you had eternity to nourish it, and it took only these few moments in time to renew its momentum, its heat? -Lestat

When we love and want nothing but good for that person, it's one of the greatest gifts we possess.

Oh, my darling, wish you were here! And my dark soul is happy again, because it does not know how to be anything else for very long, and because the pain is a deep dark sea in which I would drown if I did not sail my little craft steadily over the surface, steadily towards a sun which will never rise.

I left Christianity because I wanted to be a moral person. That is why I left. I no longer believed in its lies.

I was a newborn vampire, weeping at the beauty of the night.

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.