Quotes from Anne Rice

I can write it myself," I said, "if only you give me the parchment and the pen. I need for you to send it, and establish this place for the receipt of an answer to it.

My Master's face was rapt and beautiful, a white flame against the wavering golden light of countless candles. He stood over me.

What had he done to become what he was? Could one so young so long ago have guessed the meaning of any decision, let alone the vow to become this?

Y tienes que saber que no cambiamos con el paso del tiempo; somos como flores que se abren; simplemente nos convertimos más y más en nosotros mismos.

My mind said, Sleep. But more profoundly, my mind said, Dream.

There are many worlds in the 'Realm of Worlds' where the ascendant beings are not male or female.

you believe God made Satan, you must realize that all Satan's power comes from God and that Satan is simply God's child, and that we are God's children also. There are no children of Satan, really.

If you are evil, how can voluptuousness and debauchery be your enemies? Don't the world, the flesh, and the devil conspire equally against man?

I love you with my whole soul, and I will always love you," he confided to me. "You are my life. I have hated you for that and love you now so much that you've been my instructor in loving. And believe me when I say you will survive this, and that you must for all of us. You will survive because you always have and you always will.

A singer can shatter a glass with the proper high note," he said, "but the simplest way for anyone to break a glass is simply to drop it on the floor.

There is only value," said Derek, "to overcoming suffering and seeking to spare others the suffering one has known oneself!

Oh, not goodness again," he said. "You and your malady of mortality, and your malady of goodness.

Almost none of these very strong and patient souls sought the flesh again. But some of them had in the past. They had gone down and been reborn and discovered in the final analysis that they could not remember from one fleshly life to another, so there was no real reason to keep being born! Better to linger here, in the eternity that was known to them, and to watch the Beauty of Creation, and it did seem very beautiful to them, as it had seemed to us.

You have to suffer through the emptiness and find what compels you to continue.

I am a wise God and a patient God," He said. "I am the One who made you." The images vanished.

It's the risk that fascinates, the moment of infinite possibility.

Somber, yes, but light and beauty come together in you in a thousand different patterns.

the sand was like sugar under his feet. They

each kiss was the perfect consummation of desire. What can we do but reach for the embrace that must now contain both heaven and hell: our doom again and again and again.

I had scarce time to grab a few important scrolls. Desperately I sought for Ovid, whom Pandora had so loved, and for the great tragedians of Greece. Avicus reached out his arms to help me.

It was the most shamefully emotional music, so like Tchaikovsky just saying, Hell with the world, and letting the sweetest, saddest pain gush, in a way that my Mozart and my Beethoven never did.

Beauty was savage. It was as dangerous and as lawless as it had been eons before man had a single coherent thought in his head.

The conflict lies between the morals of the artist and the morals of society, not between aesthetics and morality.

You will not feel anything. When you detonate the explosion, you will cease to be. That's all. There is no life beyond biological life. There is no life beyond visible life.