Truth is a risky proposition. It's the nature of mediocre human beings to believe that lies are necessary, that they serve a purpose, that truth is subversive, that candor is dangerous, that the very scaffold of communal life is supported by lies.

Memnoch the Devil happen to be my favorite of all The Vampire Chronicles.

You never know the palette of the one you kill until the mind disgorges its finest colours.

I tell you, we would be hard put to determine what is more evil -- religion or the pure idea. The intervention of the supernatural or the elegant abstract solution! Both have bathed this earth in suffering; both have brought the human race literally and figuratively to its knees.

I congratulate myself on not having arrived into the world until the present time. This age suits my taste.

Wasn't it his right to listen to opera, read poetry and adventure novels, go to Europe every couple of months for some reason or another, and drive his Porsche over the speed limit until he found out who he was?

Old truths and ancient magic, revolution and invention, all conspire to distract us from the passion that in one way or another defeats us all.