I'm usually working on my own mythology, my own realm of created characters. Stories in mythology inspire me, though I may not be conscious of it.

I knelt and prayed, and the strongest truth came over me. Didn't matter if God in his heaven was a Catholic or a Protestant God, or the God of the Hindus. What mattered was something deeper and older and more powerful than any such image - it was a concept of goodness based upon the affirmation of life, the turning away from destruction, from the perverse, from man using and abusing man. It was the affirmation of the human and the natural.

Because," she said, "that is what men would call it. They invented Satan, didn't they? Satanic is merely the name they give to the behavior of those who would disrupt the orderly way in which men want to live.

Oh Lestat, you deserved everything that's ever happened to you. You better not die. You might actually go to hell.

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.

For always in her there was a dark place full of despair and a great dividing force to make meaning because there was none.

Sometimes dreams show me that my writing should go deeper. Dreams have not so much changed my work as deepened it.