Quotes from Anne Rice

When I write something, every word of it is meant. I can't say it enough.

Re-telling the Christian story is the essence of my vocation. That has been going on since the Evangelists in one form or another.

The world doesn't need any more mediocrity or hedged bets.

We have to become saints. We have to become like Christ. Anything less is simply not enough.

I'm going to keep on dealing with the supernatural in a lot of ways.

Your quest is for darkness only. This sea is not your sea. The myths of men are not your myths. Men's treasures are not yours.

I lived like a man who wanted to die but who had no courage to do it himself.

I am certain a great many believers and bible readers do believe in social justice.

My last sunrise. That morning, I was not yet a vampire. And I saw my last sunrise. I remember it completely; yet I do not think I remember any other sunrise before it.

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.

What I did was take the Jesus of the Gospels, the Son of God, the Son of the Virgin Mary, and sought to make Him utterly believable, a vital breathing character.

God, why didn't you make us all dogs?

In the chapel you prayed to be a saint and now I will make you a god.

This suffering, this unspeakable capacity to bleed and to know pain and to know annihilation, is what has to be overcome in this world if anyone is to reach God.

I saw my real gods . . the gods of most men. Food, drink, and security in conformity.

A perfectly evil Devil makes even less sense than a perfect God.

I am an unwilling devil. I cry like some vagrant child. I want to go home.

So we reach into the raging chaos, and we cling to it, and we tell ourselves it has meaning, and that the world is good, and we are not evil, and we will all go home in the end.

I was the vampire Lestat again. I was back in action. New Orleans was once again my hunting ground.

I was good and bad, but never wicked.

Resignation requires will, and will requires decision, and decision requires belief, and belief requires that there is something to believe in!

Sadness, it was such an arresting emotion. You could almost convince yourself of the rhyme and reason of heartbreak.

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

Thank God he killed the guy. Oh, now, wait a minute. What kind of a prayer was that!