We need to stop fighting Christian against Christian. I have no time for anything but trying to love other people. That is a full-time job.

For always in her there was a dark place full of despair and a great dividing force to make meaning because there was none.

Yes. To write a novel is to risk my sanity. The deeper I get into the suffering and conflict of the characters, into the very situations and thoughts and feelings that make the novel worthwhile, the worse I feel, and the more likely I am to be severely depressed when the book is finished. There is no avoiding this: it is the result of attempting to tell all you know, to reach for the stars, to write what matters.

That was my nature - going from temptation after temptation, not to sin, but to be redeemed.

Don't be a pawn in somebody's game. Find the attitude which gives you the maximum strength and the maximum dignity, no matter what else is going on

I love you still, that's the torment of it. Lestat I never loved. But you! The measure of my hatred is that love. They are the same! Do you know now how much I hate you!

I broke with my religion in college.