Memnoch the Devil (The Vampire Chronicles, #5)

by Anne Rice

Sometimes fear is a warning. It’s like someone putting a hand on your shoulder and saying Go No Farther.

One happy human being saved from the misery which religion can so effortlessly generate?

I wasn’t going to waste my life believing in something that was unprovable and out of the question. I wanted to know what I was permitted to see and feel and taste in my life.”

What I mean is, without Time you could not be conscious of yourself, either in terms of failure or achievement, or in terms of any motion backwards or forwards, or any effect.”