How can so much beauty hide such a bruised and steely heart, and why must I love him, why must I lean in my weariness upon his irresistible yet indomitable strength? Is he not the wizend funeral spirit of a dead man in a child's clothes?

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

Oh, if the moon only had a secret, if the moon only held a truth. But the moon was just the moon.

I never lie," I said offhand. "At least not to those I don't love.

When you find out there is no ultimate good and evil in which you can place your faith, the world does not fall apart at the seams. It simply means that every decision is more difficult, more critical, because you are creating the good and evil yourself and they are very real.

I am the Vampire Lestat. I'm immortal more or less. The light of the sun, the sustained heat of an intense fire-these things might destroy me. But then again, they might not.

Strong women are absolutely unpredictable.