"I'd like to meet the devil one night. I'd chase him from here to the wilds of the Pacific. I am the devil."
-Lestat, Interview With a Vampire
"How is evil achieved? How does one fall from grace and become in one instant as evil as the mob tribunal of the Revolution, or the most cruel of the Roman emperors?"
-Armand, Interview With a Vampire "What can we do but reach for the embrace that must now contain both heaven and hell: our doom again and again and again."
-The Vampire Lestat
"Then, the devil reigns in heaven, and heaven is hell."
-Lestat, The Vampire Lestat
"I shall give you the water of all waters, the wine of all wines. This is my Body, this is my Blood."
-Magnus, The Vampire Lestat
"What are these shades we wait for and believe will come some evening in limousines from Heaven?"
-Stan Rice, Body of Work, Of Heaven
"Why should Death lurk in the shadows? Why should Death wait at the gate? There is no bedchamber, no ballroom that I cannot enter. Death in the glow of the hearth, Death on tiptoe in the corridor, that is what I am."
-Lestat, The Vampire Lestat
"We'll be in hell together afterall."
-Armand, Queen of the Damned
"Let something come from nothing."
-Stan Rice, Body of Work, Tears Suite
"The devil needs you. The devil's crying. He wants you to hold his hand."
-Lestat, Tale of the Body Thief
"When the world if man collapses in ruin, beauty will take over. The trees shall grow again where there were streets; the flowers will again cover the meadow that is now a dank field of hovels."
-Gabrielle, The Vampire Lestat
"So until we meet again, I am thinking of you always, I love you; I wish you were here...in my arms"
-Lestat, Queen of the Damned
"Am I perhaps the only guardian angel? Am I the only one who can confirm this fate?"
-Louis, Tale of the Body Thief
"I'm Gentleman Death, in silk and lace, come to put out the candles."
-Lestat, The Vampire Lestat
"If you believe God made Satan, you must realise that all Satan's power comes from God and that Satan is simply God's child, and that we are God's children also. There are no children of Satan really."
-Armand, Interview With a Vampire
"And what is an angel but a ghost in drag?"
-Stan Rice, Body of Work, Of Heaven
"Don't be a fool for the devil, darling unless he treats you a damn sight better than the Almighty."
-Lestat, The Vampire Lestat
"Satanic is merely the name they [men] give to the behavior of those who would disrupt the orderly way in which men want to live."
-Gabrielle, The Vampire Lestat
"Maybe by some sublime miracle it is alive, Death, and it takes us into its arms, and it is no vampire, this thing, but it is thevery personification of the heavens."
-The Vampire Lestat
"I do not know why I go on. I do not search for truth. I do not believe in it."
-Lestat, The Vampire Lestat
"This evil, this concept, it comes from disappointment, from bitterness. Don't you see? Children of Satan! Children of God! Is this the only question you bring to me, is this the only power that obsesses you, so that you must make us gods and devils yourself when the only power that exists is inside ourselves?"
-Armand, Interview With a Vampire
"Are we close to God when we create something out of nothing? When we pretend we are the tiny flame and we make other flames?"
-Lestat, Tale of the Body Thief
"Some things lighten nightfall and make a Rembrandt of a grief. But mostly the swiftness of time is a joke; on us. The flame-moth is unable to laugh. What luck. The myths are dead....."
-Stan Rice, Body of Work, Poem on Crawling into Bed: Bitterness
"I can't help being the gorgeous fiend. It's just the card I drew.:
-Lestat, Queen of the Damned
"A singer can shatter a glass with the proper high note, but the simplest way for anyone to break a glass is simply to drop it on the floor."
-Marius, The Vampire Lestat
"Are you to go to heaven, on white wing with this penitential sojourn of yours is ended?"
-Lestat, The Vampire Lestat
"Simplicity and brutality are synonymous in philosophy and in actio"
- marius, Queen of the Damned
