I was the vampire Lestat again. I was back in action. New Orleans was once again my hunting ground.

I think love can save the world. When we love, we completely recognize the value of the other.

We breathe the light, we breathe the music, we breathe the moment as it passes through us.

I am in love with you', I responded. He laughed the most beguiling and gentle laugh. 'Of course you are,' he replied. 'I understand perfectly because I'm in love with myself. The fact that I'm not transfixed in front of the nearest mirror takes a great deal of self-control.' It was my turn to laugh.

The one thing you share with every mortal is death.

But death we are, and death we've always been.

Then, are you master of us all? You didn't teach her that. Was she supposed to imbibe it from my quiet subservience?