Anne Rice Quotes

The only pain in pleasure is the pleasure of the pain.

I don't believe in anything and that makes me stronger than you think.

Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty.

The vampires have always been metaphors for me. They've always been vehicles through which I can express things I have felt very, very deeply.

To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself.

We're frightened of what makes us different.

So until we meet again, I am thinking of you always; I love you; I wish you were here...in my arms.

"I want to know, for example, why beauty exists," she said, "why nature continues to contrive it, and what is the link between the life of a lightning storm with the feelings these things inspire in us? If God does not exist, if these things are not unified into one metaphorical system, then why do they retain for us such symbolic power? Lestat calls it the Savage Garden, but for me that is not enough.".

When you're watching TV and they're reporting 50 people dead in Mississippi and you haven't heard from your family, well, you think the worst.

Invest in a feather duster -- the possibilities are endless.

Sometimes fear is a warning. It's like someone putting a hand on yoru shoulder adn saying Go No Farther.

Doesn't matter now, devils who paint angels.".

During this crisis you failed us.

God kills indescriminantly, and so shall we. For no creatures under God are as we are, none so like him as ourselves.

I was particularly stunned by the casting of [Tom] Cruise, who is no more my Vampire LeStat than Edward G. Robinson is Rhett Butler.

Interview with the Vampire.

In a long-term relationship, it's very easy to take each other for granted.

When you make his sandwiches, put a sexy or loving note in his lunch box . . .

Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt.

Maybe thats what hell is. You go mad, and all your demonds come and get you just as fast as you can think them up.

Life has no meaning any more does it? The wine has no taste, the food sickens you, there seems no reason for any of it, does there? But what if I could give it back to you. Pluck out the pain, and give you another life, one you could never imagine, and it would be for all time. And sickness and death could never touch you again. Don't be afraid, I'm going to give you the choice, I, never, had.

Speak to me of the dark gifts, I use them, I`m gentleman death in silk and lace, come to put out the candles.

Her blood coursed through my veins sweeter than life itself. And as it did, Lestat's words made sense to me. I knew peace only when I killed and when I heard her heart in that terrible rhythm, I knew again what peace could be.

So why must it wound him that the most despairing music is full of beauty? Why must it hurt him and make him cynical and sad and untrusting?

And I knew my vision of the garden of savage beauty had been a true vision. There was meaning in the world, yes, and laws, and inevitability, but they had only to do with the aesthetic and in this Savage Garden, these innocent ones belonged in the vampire's arms. A thousand other things can be said about the world, but only aesthetic principles can be verified, and these things alone remain the same.