Don't be a pawn in somebody's game. Find the attitude which gives you the maximum strength and the maximum dignity, no matter what else is going on

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

When we talk about our lives, long or short, brief and tragic or enduring beyond comprehension, we impose a continuity on them, and that continuity is a lie.

You think I live in the past. You don't understand that I actually change with every era, I always have as best I can

Something in me was responding now as the audience responded, not in fear, but in some human way, to the magic of that fragile painted set, the mystery of the lighted world there.

I was particularly stunned by the casting of Cruise, who is no more my Vampire Lestat than Edward G. Robinson is Rhett Butler.

You can look at the New York Times Bestseller List and you can be pretty sure that the writers on that list don't know each other very well.