The atheism and nihilism of my earlier years now seems shallow, and even a bit cocky.

The young know how truly difficult and dreadful youth can be. Their youth is wasted on everyone else, that's the horror. The young have no authority, no respect.

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

I saw the Light,saw the myriad spirits flying loose up the Tunnel towards the celestial blaze, the Tunnel perfectly round and widening as they rose and for one blessed moment, one blessed tiny instant, the songs of Heaven resounded down the tunnel as if its curves were not made of wind but of something solid that could echo these ethereal songs, and their organized rhythm, their heartbreaking beauty piercing the catastrophic suffering of this place-Lestat

Don't you see? It is a new age. It requires a new evil. And I am that new evil.

The world doesn't need any more mediocrity or hedged bets.

Merciful death. How you love your precious guilt