To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner.

The one thing you share with every mortal is death.

The prince is never going to come. Everyone knows that; and maybe sleeping beauty's dead.

I love the world the Lord has created; I love the mountains, the rivers, the valleys, the skies. I love the forests, the fields, the flowers. I love the mysteries of evolution and dna and the big bang. I want to know the majesties of the Lord's Creation. I cannot close my eyes to all this. I cannot turn away from science and scientific exploration.

Lestat: Toughen up baby. I'm looking for the eternal scum.

But during all these years I had a vague but persistent desire to return to New Orleans. I never forgot New Orleans. And when we were in tropical places and places of those flowers and trees that grow in Louisiana, I would think of it acutely and I would feel for my home the only glimmer of desire I felt for anything outside my endless pursuit of art.

You see,' [Armand] said, 'killing other vampires is very exciting; that is why it is forbidden under penalty of death.