Because," she said, "that is what men would call it. They invented Satan, didn't they? Satanic is merely the name they give to the behavior of those who would disrupt the orderly way in which men want to live.

The spirit who inhabits her animates us all. Destroy the host, you destroy the power. The young die first; the old wither slowly; the eldest perhaps would go last. But she is the Queen of the Damned, and the Damned can't live without her.

The truth is most women are weak, be they mortal or immortal. But when they are strong, they are absolutely unpredictable.

There's a virtue,' Felix said, 'to listening to a reluctant storyteller. You know that he is in fact diving deep for the salvageable truth.

We have to become saints. We have to become like Christ. Anything less is simply not enough.

Drink from me and live forever. Lestat de Lioncourt

When I'm writing, the darkness is always there. I go where the pain is.