Anne Rice

“One will hate you for taking his life, another will run to excesses that you scorn. A third will emerge mad and raving, another a monster you cannot control. One will be jealous of your superiority, another shut you out... And the veil will always come down between you Make a legion, you will be, always and forever alone!”

“There is one purpose to life and one only: to bear witness to and understand as much as possible of the complexity of the world -- its beauty, its mysteries, its riddles. The more you understand, the more you look, the greater is your enjoyment of life and your sense of peace. That's all there is to it. Everything else is fun and games. If an activity is not grounded in "to love" or "to learn" it does not have value.”

“We have to become saints. We have to become like Christ. Anything less is simply not enough.”

“I gave up on the big screen. The Witching Hour was at Warner Bros. for 10 years and it just didn't work out.”

“To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner.”

“It is tragic that many in America think of us - Christians - as being people who hate others.”

“But there is no value to suffering!”

“You’re a mystery the way a sacrament is a mystery.”

“Is there any one of us who doesn’t want to strike back at all the evil in this world?”

“To be human, that's what most of us long for. It is the human which has become myth to us.”

“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.”

“We're frightened of what makes us different.”

“But you love books, then,” Aunt Queen was saying. I had to listen.“Oh, yes,” Lestat said. “Sometimes they are the only thing that keeps me alive.”“What a strange thing to say at your age,” she laughed.“No, but one can feel desperate at any age, don’t you think? The young are eternally desperate,” he said frankly. “And books, they offer one hope —- that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that new universe, one is saved.”

“The world changes, we do not, therein lies the irony that kills us.”

“And oh, how she pitched herself into things. She would draw pictures all day long for weeks on end, then throw out the pencils and never draw another thing. Then it was embroidery with her, she had to learn it, and she'd make the most beautiful thing, fussing at herself for the least little mistake, then throw down the needles and be done with that forevermore. I never saw a child so changeable. It was as though she was looking for something to which she could give herself, and she never found it. Least ways not while she was a little girl.”

“The vampires have always been metaphors for me. They've always been vehicles through which I can express things I have felt very, very deeply.”

“The only pain in pleasure is the pleasure of the pain.”

“When you make his sandwiches, put a sexy or loving note in his lunch box.”

“Because people don't believe it unless it happens to them.”

“Writers had a way of redeeming everything that ever happens to them.”