Would that death were like this. Would that one would sleep and sleep and sleep forever.

For me, places have a tremendous impact. I fall in love with places. All of life seems different in different places.

...what was the good of being a movie werewolf? You howled at the moon; you couldn't remember what you did, and then somebody shot you.

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.

The finest thing under the sun and moon is the human soul. I marvel at the small miracles of kindness that pass between humans, I marvel at the growth of conscience, at the persistence of reason in the face of all superstition or despair. I marvel at human endurance.

The most difficult novel I have had to write in terms of just getting it done was The Vampire Lestat. It took a year to write.

The fact that I loved you was the greatest lie I have ever lived.