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.

And then it was, that grief and pain made themselves known to me as never before. Note this, because I knew the full absurdity of Fate and Fortune and Nature more truly than a human can bear to know it. And perhaps the description of this, brief as it is, may give consolation to another. The worst takes its time to come, and then to pass. The truth is, you cannot prepare anyone for this, nor convey an understanding of it through language. It must be known. And this I would wish on no one in the world.

This is a lyrical guide that addresses the deep human yearning to make a difference. It's full of indelible stories reminding us that, yes, helping people is hard-but it's both possible and infinitely rewarding. A Path Appears offers practical steps that any of us can take to empower others, and ourselves.

Then, are you master of us all? You didn't teach her that. Was she supposed to imbibe it from my quiet subservience?

Claudia... you've been a very very naughty little girl.

A perfect world or a world destroyed, one or the other- someday will come the end of hell.

Oh, but when love is reached through suffering, it has a power it can never gain through innocence.