The thing should have plot and character, beginning, middle and end. Arouse pity and then have a catharsis. Those were the best principles I was ever taught.

You were the vampire in my dream. My perfect one.

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-

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

Get thee behind me, tragedy.

I broke with my religion in college.

Words. Borne on the ever swelling current of hatred, like flowers opening in the current, petals peeling back, then falling apart.