Nothing in all the world is so nonsensical and contradictory, save mortals, that is, who live in the grip of the superstitions of the past. - Anne Rice
And you are with us and one of us, and we are the people of the moon and the stars. - Anne Rice
Information age. I guess I'm part of it, even if I can't remember how to use my iPhone from week to week, and have to learn how to send e-mails all over again every couple of years, and can't retain any profound technological knowledge about the computers I sometimes use. - Anne Rice
I am the Vampire Lestat. I'm immortal more or less. The light of the sun, the sustained heat of an intense fire-these things might destroy me. But then again, they might not. - Anne Rice
Without memory there can be no insight. Without love, there can be no appreciation. - Anne Rice
In his refusal to believe in anything supernatural or inherently evil, he was as unrealistic as an old voodoo queen who sees spirits everywhere. - Anne Rice
We all die. The one thing you share with every mortal is death. - Anne Rice
I was good and bad, but never wicked. - Anne Rice
I never knew what life was until it ran out in a red gush over any lips, my hands! - Anne Rice
I was just walking around saying We’re all gonna die! I never got over it. I went to class, I did what I had to do, but I was a gibbering idiot. It never went away. I never again felt the same way about life and death. - Anne Rice
The young know how truly difficult and dreadful youth can be. Their youth is wasted on everyone else, that's the horror. The young have no authority, no respect. - Anne Rice
Sadness, it was such an arresting emotion. You could almost convince yourself of the rhyme and reason of heartbreak. - Anne Rice
Should we put out the light? And then put out the light. But once put out thy light, I cannot give it vital breath again. It needs must wither. - Anne Rice
I saw my real gods . . the gods of most men. Food, drink, and security in conformity. - Anne Rice
Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty. - Anne Rice
I would die rather than live without you. I would die the same way he died. I can't bear you to look at me the way you did. I cannot bear it if you do not love me!" -Claudia. - Anne Rice
Be kind. Always if you have a choice, be kind. - Anne Rice
Evil is always possible, and goodness is eternally difficult. - Anne Rice
Darkness had been essentially banished from the Earth. It had become a choice. - Anne Rice
Would that death were like this. Would that one would sleep and sleep and sleep forever. - Anne Rice
God kills indiscriminately and so shall we. For no creatures under God are as we are none so like him as ourselves. - Anne Rice
A perfectly evil Devil makes even less sense than a perfect God. - Anne Rice
No matter how long we exist, we have our memories. Points in time which time itself cannot erase. Suffering may distort my backward glances, but even to suffering, some memories will yield nothing of ther beauty or their splendor. Rather they remain as hard as gems. - Anne Rice
Lestat: Toughen up baby. I'm looking for the eternal scum. - Anne Rice
Merciful death. How you love your precious guilt - Anne Rice
Evil is a point of view. God kills indiscriminately and so shall we. For no creatures under God are as we are, none so like him as ourselves. - Anne Rice
First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success. - Anne Rice
Go where the pain is, go where the pleasure is. - Anne Rice