I was a human being once, said the younger ghost. I was a blood drinker for centuries after that. And I am a ghost now. And my soul has been my soul in all three forms.

In fiction if nowhere else, I must have a little meaning, a little coherence, or I will go mad.

The great adventure of our lives. What does it mean to die when you can live until the end of the world? And what is ‘the end of the world' except a phrase, because who knows even what is the world itself?

The only power that exists is inside ourselves.

He got away with those affairs because he was never inattentive to Ellie. Some of the other guys around here should take a lesson from that. What women hate is when you turn cold to them. If you treat them like queens, they'll let you have a concubine or two outside the palace.

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.

It was as if this night were only one of thousands of nights, world without end, night curving into night to make a great arching line of which I couldn't see the end, a night in which I roamed alone under cold, mindless stars.