“I like to read things I've read before. It's like listening over and over to your favorite song.”

“If you read this, read it for that reason that Lestat is talking again, that he is frightened, that he is searching desperately for the lesson and for the song and for the raison d'etre, that he wants to understand his own story and he wants you to understand it, and that it is the very best story he has right now to tell. If that's not enough, read something else. If it is, read on. In chains, to my friend and my scribe, I dictated these words.Come with me. Just listen to me. Don't leave me alone.”

“Wasn't it his right to listen to opera, read poetry and adventure novels, go to Europe every couple of months for some reason or another, and drive his Porsche over the speed limit until he found out who he was?”

“There are so many books I mean to read, and things I mean to see.”

“I've always been my own teacher. And I must confess I've been my favorite pupil a well.”

“I feel like an outsider, and I always will feel like one. I've always felt that I wasn't a member of any particular group.”

“And I loved this moment for all it's pain...We seemed for a moment like two parts of the same thing.”