"You're a perfect devil, Lestat!" he was saying. "That's what you are! You are the devil himself!"

My life's been too much of a self-created vocation. And there are times when I think I've done everything in the name of defiance.

Everyone is a potential naked slave to you once you become a trainer.

I saw finally the futility of all these gestures, that witchcraft is but a matter of focus-that one cann apply one's fierce and immeasurable energies to an act of choice.

I didn’t look to the shore much after this first long and memorable glimpse. I looked up at Heaven and her court of mythical creatures fixed forever in the all powerful and inscrutable stars. Ink black was the night beyond them, and they so like jewels that old poetry came back to me, the sound even of hymns sung only by men.

I lived like a man who wanted to die but who had no courage to do it himself.

Sweet to think on it, that when we are last weary of all this world there is the rising sun