I don't know why one author writes westerns while another writes detective novels. You don't know why. You go where the intensity is. I feel most com….

It is tragic that many in America think of us - Christians - as being people who hate others..

People write to me all the time to tell me that "homosexuality is an abomination." They base this on a quote in Leviticus. I think the Bible has prov….

My body is no schoolboy..

Life itself must be founded upon the infinite possibility for choice and accident. And if we cannot prove that it is, we must believe that it is. W….

In a way he made me think of a child doll, with briliant faintly red-brown glass eyes - a doll that had been found in an attic. I wanted to polish hi….

‎There's no way to cheat a sensualist like me, somebody who can die laughing for hours over the pattern of the carpet in a hotel lobby..

When I realized that Reuben was a young man who really wanted to be taken seriously, because he was dismissed for being too good looking or because h….

Like all strong people, she suffered always a measure of loneliness; she was a marginal outsider, a secret infidel of a certain sort..

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..

Whipping is fifty percent show and noise..

The world doesn't need any more mediocrity or hedged bets..

Sometimes dreams show me that my writing should go deeper. Dreams have not so much changed my work as deepened it..

It struck me, sharp and hard, that I had been given so many chances to save my soul that my entire life had been constructed around these chances! Th….

I would die rather than live without you. I would die the same way he died. I can't bear you to look at me the way you did. I cannot bear it if you d….

I hear the birds singing. Listen. I hear them in their cage. The others-all our kind who know of her-they think of her as heartless, but she wasn't h….

That morning I was not yet a vampire, and I saw my last sunrise. I remember it completely, and yet I can't recall any sunrise before it. I watched th….

I allowed myself to forget how totally I had fallen in love with Lestat's iridescent eyes, that I'd sold my soul for a many-colored and luminescent t….

You never know the palette of the one you kill until the mind disgorges its finest colours..

My heart right now is totally connected to a book called The Servant of the Bones, which is not in any way connected with vampires or witches. It's a….

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 ….