Oh, my darling, wish you were here! And my dark soul is happy again, because it does not know how to be anything else for very long, and because the pain is a deep dark sea in which I would drown if I did not sail my little craft steadily over the surface, steadily towards a sun which will never rise.

Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a very dangerous enemy indeed.

I gave up on the big screen. The Witching Hour was at Warner Bros. for 10 years and it just didn't work out.

"You're a perfect devil, Lestat!" he was saying. "That's what you are! You are the devil himself!"

I don't believe in anything and that makes me stronger than you think

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.

Strong women are absolutely unpredictable.