Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)

by Anne Rice

Not only did I not believe he saw visions, I couldn’t entertain the notion for a moment. Now, why? Because he was my brother. Holy he might be, peculiar most definitely; but Francis of Assisi, no. Not my brother. No brother of mine could be such. That is egotism. Do you see?”

She wasn’t really an hysteric. She simply thought she ought to react that way, so she did.

I saw my real gods … the gods of most men. Food, drink, and security in conformity. Cinders.”

I never laugh at death, no matter how often and regularly I am the cause of it.

don’t fall so madly in love with the night that you lose your way!’

I did not actually feel this anymore. I was simply remembering it.

‘I am to live to the end of the world, and I do not even know what I am!’

The conflict lies between the morals of the artist and the morals of society, not between aesthetics and morality.

Once fallen from grace, I had confidence in nothing.”