Anne Rice Quotes: 18

• None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are.

  The Vampire Lestat

• You do have a story inside you; it lies articulate and waiting to be written — behind your silence and your suffering.

• Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.

  Interview with the Vampire

• The world changes, we do not, therein lies the irony that kills us.

  Interview with the Vampire

• I never lie,"I said offhand. "At least not to those I don't love.

  The Vampire Lestat

• People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil... Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.

  Interview with the Vampire

• And books, they offer one hope -- that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that universe, one is saved.

  Blackwood Farm

• Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ask. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds -- justifications, confirmations, forms of consolation without which they can't go on. To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner.

  The Vampire Lestat

• Oh Lestat, you deserved everything that's ever happened to you. You better not die. You might actually go to hell.

  The Vampire Lestat

• Merciful death. How you love your precious guilt

• I was good and bad, but never wicked.

• The finest thing under the sun and moon is the human soul. I marvel at the small miracles of kindness that pass between humans, I marvel at the growth of conscience, at the persistence of reason in the face of all superstition or despair. I marvel at human endurance.

  Pandora

• We all suffer under a curse, the curse that we know more than we can endure, and there is nothing, absolutely nothing we can do about the force and the lure of this knowledge.

  Vittorio, The Vampire

• Do you know what I think about crying? I think some people have to learn to do it. But once you learn, once you know how to really cry, there's nothing quite like it. I feel sorry for those who don't know the trick. It's like whistling or singing.

  Memnoch the Devil

• 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.

  Lasher

• How could anyone love Him? What did you just tell me yourself about the world? Don't you see, everybody hates God now. It's not that God is dead in the twentieth century. It's that everybody hates Him! At least I think so.

  Memnoch the Devil

• Would that death were like this. Would that one would sleep and sleep and sleep forever.

• First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success.