The whole theme of Interview with the Vampire was Louis's quest for meaning in a godless world. He searched to find the oldest existing immortal simp….

Aren't there gradations of evil? Is evil a great perilous gulf into which one falls with the first sin, plummeting to the depth?.

That process by which you become a writer is a pretty lonely one. We don't have a group apprenticeship like a violinist might training for an orchest….

There's a virtue,' Felix said, 'to listening to a reluctant storyteller. You know that he is in fact diving deep for the salvageable truth..

Amazing what the British do with language; the nuances of politeness. The world's great diplomats, surely..

A starving child is a frightful sight. A starving vampire, even worse..

Because I show you my pain, I do not of necessity love you..

The spirit who inhabits her animates us all. Destroy the host, you destroy the power. The young die first; the old wither slowly; the eldest perhaps ….

….it was a brave man’s fear. I knew what he meant. What must a brave general feel when he knows the battle has gone against him and nothing remains b….

It's so easy to wish for death when nothing's wrong with you! It's so easy to fall in love with death, and I've been all my life, and seen it's most ….

To be godless is probably the first step to innocence," he said, "to lose the sense of sin and subordination, the false grief for things supposed to ….

As if it were our very birthright, which we could not come to grasp the meaning of until this time of middle life when we looked on only as many year….

He had never expected death to be this quiet, this secretive, this easy..

We’re going to die and not even know. We’ll never know, and all this meaninglessness will just go on and on and on. And we won’t any longer be witnes….

I had wanted to say that my song was far too painful to sing..

Don't you see? I'm not the spirit of any age. I'm at odds with everything and always have been! I have never belonged anywhere with anyone at any tim….

Why does shame and self-loathing become cruelty to the innocent ?.

And he would listen, making only a few comments, always sympathetic, so that when I left him I had the distinct impression he had solved everything f….

This is a lyrical guide that addresses the deep human yearning to make a difference. It's full of indelible stories reminding us that, yes, helping p….

Because," she said, "that is what men would call it. They invented Satan, didn't they? Satanic is merely the name they give to the behavior of those ….

Time can tick when there is no clock..