Quotes from Anne Rice

Don't be a pawn in somebody's game. Find the attitude which gives you the maximum strength and the maximum dignity, no matter what else is going on

We would make our heroes shallow.... We would make them brittle. It is they who must remind us of the true meaning of strength.

There is one purpose to life and one only: to bear witness to and understand as much as possible of the complexity of the world- its beauty, its mysteries, its riddles.

But just remember, life without me would be even more unbearable.

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

I claim Dickens as a mentor. He's my teacher. He's one of my driving forces.

What if I could give you your life back; pluck out the pain; and give you a world of unimaginable beauty that would be for all time.

Everything we do in life, we do with certain expectations.

I am afraid of death. I believe nothing, and therefore like many who believe nothing I must make something, and that something is the meaning which I give my life.

Some mysteries are simply irresistible," she said. "They have components that alter a life.

We are not damned. We never were. Who under the sun has the right to damn any living breathing creature?

My life's been too much of a self-created vocation. And there are times when I think I've done everything in the name of defiance.

I'm always looking, and I'm always asking questions.

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

I'm Gentleman Death in silk and lace, come to put out the candles. The canker in the heart of the rose.

I have lived lies. I have done it again and again. I live lies because I cannot endure the weakness of anger, and I cannot admit the irrationality of love.-Marius

Believe in angels? Then believe in vampires. Believe in me. There are worse things on earth.

And what constitutes evil, real evil, is the taking of a single human life. Whether a man would die tomorrow or the day after or eventually... it doesn't matter. Because if God does not exist, then life... every second of it... Is all we have.

To be godless is probably the first step to innocence, he said, to lose the sense of sin and subordination, the false grief for things supposed to be lost. So by innocence you mean not an absence of experience, but an absence of illusions. An absence of need for illusions, he said. A love of and respect for what is right before your eyes.

And I realized that I'd tolerated him this long because of self-doubt.

Do you know what it means to be loved by Death?... Do you know what it means to have Death know your name?

Just remember... life without me would be even more unbearable.

The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly melodic. Weeping is often fought, choked, half strangled, or surrendered to with humiliation.

We're frightened of what makes us different.