The library furnished our dreams, helped us shape our ambitions, made up people of books and ideas and grand designs.

Pride is the parent of destruction; pride eats the mind and the heart and the soul alive.

The whole theme of Interview with the Vampire was Louis's quest for meaning in a godless world. He searched to find the oldest existing immortal simply to ask, What is the meaning of what we are?

I'm Gentleman Death in silk and lace, come to put out the candles. The canker in the heart of the rose.

I loved words. I love to sing them and speak them and even now, I must admit, I have fallen into the joy of writing them.

To learn and to love, that is what we are here for, any activity which is not grounded in one of these two is a waste of time.

Go where the pain is, go where the pleasure is.