"None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are."
— Anne Rice (The Vampire Lestat)

"Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult."
— Anne Rice (Interview With the Vampire)

"The prince is never going to come. Everyone knows that; and maybe sleeping beauty's dead."
— Anne Rice (The Vampire Lestat)

"In the very depths of Hell, do not demons love one another?"
— Anne Rice

"The world changes, we do not, therein lies the irony that kills us."
— Anne Rice (Interview With The Vampire)

"Take me from this earth
an endless night-
this, the end of life.
From the dark I feel your lips
and taste your bloody kiss.
"
— Anne Rice (Interview With The Vampire)

"Come on, say it again. I'm a perfect devil. Tell me how bad I am. It makes me feel so good!"
— Anne Rice (The Queen of the Damned)

"...Consequently, if you believe God made Satan, you must realize that all Satan's power comes from God and so that Satan is simply God's child, and that we are God's children also. There are no children of Satan, really.
- Armand"
— Anne Rice (Interview With the Vampire)

"I'm Gentleman Death in silk and lace, come to put out the candles. The canker in the heart of the rose."
— Anne Rice (The Vampire Lestat)

"Goddamn it, do it yourself. You’re five hundred years old and you can’t use a telephone? Read the directions. What are you, an immortal idiot?"
— Anne Rice (The Queen of the Damned)

"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.-Marius"
— Anne Rice

"Evil is a point of view. We are immortal. And what we have before us are the rich feasts that conscience cannot appreciate and mortal men cannot know without regret. God kills, and so shall we; indiscriminately He takes the richest and the poorest, and so shall we; for no creatures under God are as we are, none so like Him as ourselves, dark angels not confined to the limits of hell but wandering His earth and all its kingdoms."
— Anne Rice

"I can’t help being a gorgeous fiend. It’s just the card I drew."
— Anne Rice (The Queen of the Damned)

"Goodnight sweet prince, may flights of devils wing you to your rest."
— Anne Rice

"Keep your secrets
Keep your silence
It is a better gift than truth"
— Anne Rice (The Queen of the Damned)

"Merciful death. How you love your precious guilt"
— Anne Rice

"Believe in angels? Then believe in vampires. Believe in me. There are worse things on earth."
— Anne Rice (Memnoch the Devil)

"How shameful. How predictable! How insipid. And how sweet."
— Anne Rice

"...And what constitutes evil, real evil, is the taking of a single human life. Whether a man would die tomorrow or the day after or eventually... it doesn't matter. Because if God does not exist, then life... every second of it... Is all we have."
— Anne Rice (Interview With The Vampire)

"Ignore any loss of nerve, ignore and loss of self-confidence, ignore any doubt or confusion. Move on believing in love, in peace, and harmony, and in great accomplishment. Remember joy isn't a stranger to you. You are winning and you are strong. Love. Love first, love always, love forever. "
— Anne Rice

"If I haven't put that on a T-shirt, I'm going to. Actually, I really don't want to write anything that can't be put on a T-shirt. Actually I'd like to write only on T-shirts. Actually, I'd like to write whole novels on T-shirts. So you guys could say, 'I'm wearing chapter 8 of Lestat's new book, that's my favorite; oh I see you're wearing chapter 6-'"
— Anne Rice (Blood Canticle)

"Just remember... life without me would be even more unbearable."
— Anne Rice

"Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a very dangerous enemy indeed."
— Anne Rice

"Drink from me and live forever.
Lestat de Lioncourt"
— Anne Rice

"Vampires pretending to be humans pretending to be vampires ... How avant-garde!"
— Anne Rice (Interview With the Vampire)

"To write something you have to risk making a fool of yourself."
— Anne Rice

""I will be the Vampire Lestat for all to see. A symbol, a freak of nature - something loved, something despised all of those things. I tell you I can't give it up. I can't miss. And quite frankly I am not in the least afraid."

- Lestat, The Vampire Lestat, p. 532
"
— Anne Rice

"I never knew what life was until it ran out in a red gush over any lips, my hands!"
— Anne Rice

"We shall live even in this state of living death, we shall love, we shall feel, we shall defy all who would judge and destroy us."
— Anne Rice

"In the spring of 1988, I returned to New Orleans, and as soon as I smelled the air, I knew I was home.
It was rich, almost sweet, like the scent of jasmine and roses around our old courtyard.
I walked the streets, savoring that long lost perfume."
— Anne Rice (Interview With the Vampire)

"when we are weary, we speak lovingly of dreams as if they embodied our true deisres-What we WOULD have when that which we DO have so sorely disappoints us"
— Anne Rice (The Mummy)

"Oh, Louis, Louis. Still whining, Louis. Have you heard enough? I've had to listen to that for centuries!"
— Anne Rice (Interview with the Vampire)

"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

"The earth here is beautiful. And it still belongs to the dead."
— Anne Rice

"One moment the world is as it is. The next, it is something entirely different. Something it has never been before."
— Anne Rice (Pandora)

"Cover her face; mine eyes dazzle. She died young.

- Lestat de Lioncourt"
— Anne Rice

"To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner"
— Anne Rice

"I know nothing of god or the devil. I have never learned a secret nor found a cure that would damn or save my soul."
— 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

"The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly melodic. Weeping is often fought, choked, half strangled, or surrendered to with humiliation."
— Anne Rice

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

"And the light shineth in darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it. (John 1)"
— Anne Rice (Vittorio: The Vampire)

"Heaven would be Hell in no time if every cruel, selfish, vicious soul went to Heaven."
— Anne Rice (Memnoch the Devil)

"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."
— Anne Rice (Vittorio: The Vampire)

"...every moment must be first known and then savored."
— Anne Rice (Interview With the Vampire)

"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

"You see that old woman? That will never happen to you. You will never grow old, and you will never die.
And it means something else too, doesn't it? I shall never ever grow up.
"
— Anne Rice (Interview With the Vampire)

"Suppose death had a heart to love and to release you, to whom would he turn this passion, would you chose a person from the crowd there. A person to suffer as you suffer."
— Anne Rice

"Let the spirits witness: for theirs is the knowledge of the future - both what it would be, and what I will: You are the Queen of the Damned, that's what you are! Evil is your only destiny. But at your greatest hour, it is I who will defeat you. Look well on my face. It is I who will bring you down."
— Anne Rice

"I was particularly stunned by the casting of [Tom] Cruise, who is no more my Vampire Lestat than Edward G. Robinson is Rhett Butler. "
— Anne Rice