If I haven't put that on a T-shirt, I'm going to. Actually, I really don't want to write anything that can't be put on a T-shirt. Actually I'd like to write only on T-shirts. Actually, I'd like to write whole novels on T-shirts. So you guys could say, 'I'm wearing chapter 8 of Lestat's new book, that's my favorite; oh I see you're wearing chapter 6-

The old gods will bring about vengeance not so much because they exist but because I once honored them.

As if it were our very birthright, which we could not come to grasp the meaning of until this time of middle life when we looked on only as many years ahead as already lay behind us.

Say what you will to the force that governs the universe. Perhaps we'll call it into being, and it will yet love us as we love it.

I’d thought I knew what beauty was in women; but she’d surpassed all the language I had for it.

The only pain in pleasure is the pleasure of the pain.

I assume as a child Jesus had to learn how to do carpentry, learn Torah, learn all the things a human child had to learn. If He was human in all ways except that He did not sin, this must have been the case.