Sweet to think on it, that when we are last weary of all this world there is the rising sun

Drink from me and live forever. Lestat de Lioncourt

We all suffer under a curse, the curse that we know more than we can endure, and there is nothing, absolutely nothing we can do about the force and the lure of this knowledge.

First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success.

It is not man who is the enemy of the human species. It is the irrational; it is the spiritual when it is divorced from the material; from the lesson in one beating heart or one bleeding vein.

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