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 would go last. But she is the Queen of the Damned, and the Damned can’t live without her.
An evil for these times destined to move through the world in handsome human guise.
Don’t let the old story repeat itself now. Arm yourself with all that’s happened.
My conscience is killing me, isn’t it? And when you’re immortal that can be a really long and ignominious death.
We have such a terrible, terrible misconception of science. We think it involves the definite, the precise, the known; it is a horrid series of gates to an unknown as vast of the universe; which means endless.
I’d thought I knew what beauty was in women; but she’d surpassed all the language I had for it.
How pathetic it is to describe these things which can’t truly be described.
I think to feel this happy is to be miserable, to feel this much satisfaction is to burn.
First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success.
Dickens is a very underrated writer at the moment. Everyone in his time admired him but I think right now he’s not spoken of enough.
People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don’t know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.
I’m going to keep on dealing with the supernatural in a lot of ways.
I claim Dickens as a mentor. He’s my teacher. He’s one of my driving forces.
Obsession led me to write. It’s been that way with every book I’ve ever written. I become completely consumed by a theme, by characters, by a desire to meet a challenge.
I’m always looking, and I’m always asking questions.
You reach deep down and bring up what feels absolutely authentic to you as you move along with the book, but you don’t know everything about it. You can’t.
We need to stop fighting Christian against Christian. I have no time for anything but trying to love other people. That is a full-time job.
I know nothing of God or the Devil. I have never seen a vision nor learned a secret that would damn or save my soul.
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 simply to ask, What is the meaning of what we are?
To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner.