Anne Rice

“The atheism and nihilism of my earlier years now seems shallow, and even a bit cocky.”

“I can't get very far away from Christianity, I can't get very far away from the angels and the saints. I work them in always, in some way.”

“...what was the good of being a movie werewolf? You howled at the moon; you couldn't remember what you did, and then somebody shot you.”

“Resignation requires will, and will requires decision, and decision requires belief, and belief requires that there is something to believe in!”

“You have a light in you that’s almost blinding. But in me there’s only darkness. Sometimes I think it’s like the darkness that infected you that night in the inn when you began to cry and to tremble. You were so helpless, so unprepared for it. I try to keep the darkness from you because I need your light. I need it desperately, but you don’t need the darkness.”

“I feel like an outsider, and I always will feel like one. I've always felt that I wasn't a member of any particular group.”

“Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ASK. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds.”

“Obsession led me to write. It's been that way with every book I've ever written. I become completely consumed by a theme, by characters, by a desire to meet a challenge.”

“As the Roman Empire came to its close, all the old gods of the pagan world were seen as demons by the Christians who rose. It was useless to tell them as the centuries passed that their Christ was but another God of the Wood, dying and rising, as Dionysus or Osiris had done before him, and that the Virgin Mary was in fact the Good Mother again enshrined. Theirs was a new age of belief and conviction, and in it we became devils, detached from what they believed, as old knowledge was forgotten or misunderstood.”

“I was good and bad, but never wicked.”

“I broke with my religion in college.”

“Darkness had been essentially banished from the Earth. It had become a choice.”

“I was obsessed with religious questions, the basics: Why are we here? Why is the world so beautiful?”

“Maybe we do go home, finally.”

“Be kind. Always if you have a choice, be kind.”

“I'm going to keep on dealing with the supernatural in a lot of ways.”

“Obviously, a writer can't know everything about what she writes. It's impossible.”

“To die or not to die, that is the question; it is nobler to live in torment and rage than not to live at all?”

“I tell you, Richard, if you ever get ready to sell your soul, don’t bother to sell it to another human being. It’s bad business to even consider such a thing.”

“But I lived a lie. I lived it out of anger. This is what I am trying to tell you. I have lived lies. I have done it again and again. I live lies because I cannot endure the weakness of anger and I cannot admit the irrationality of love. Oh the lies I have told myself and others. I knew it yet I didn't know.”