Quotes from Anne Rice

He looked rather splendid in his sorrow. Again he made me think of the paintings of Andrea del Sarto. There was something lush in his beauty, for all the sharp and clear well-drawn lines of his eyes and mouth.

Sunlight poured through an open doorway; I saw the flowered pattern of linoleum. I heard the laughter of toddlers, and I tasted milk.

I could feel the attention as if it were an embrace.

As we were discussing last night, he said, evil is a matter of context. That is unavoidable. I am no relativist. I believe in the objective and true existence of good and of evil. But context is inevitable when a fallible human being speaks of evil. This we must all accept.

Marius," she said in cultured and perfect Latin, her voice as lovely as her face, "you read my walls and my floor as if they were a book." "Forgive me," I said. "But when a room is so exquisitely decorated, it seems the polite thing to do.

It struck me with full force that there had been moments in my long life when I would have found his message irresistible, so great had been my loneliness, so great had been my longing to be understood.

You reach deep down and bring up what feels absolutely authentic to you as you move along with the book, but you don't know everything about it. You can't.

Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty.

I think that we are supernatural. We are unique. We're the only animals in the universe that we know of that actually have self-consciousness, a sense of time and our own mortality.

Dickens is a very underrated writer at the moment. Everyone in his time admired him but I think right now he's not spoken of enough.

The worst takes its time to come, and then to pass.

I'm usually working on my own mythology, my own realm of created characters. Stories in mythology inspire me, though I may not be conscious of it.

I want to love all the children of God - Christian, Jew, Moslem, Hindu, Buddhist - everyone. I want to love gay Christians and straight Christians.

My greatest sin has always been that I have a wonderful time being myself

Don't you see? I'm not the spirit of any age. I'm at odds with everything and always have been! I have never belonged anywhere with anyone at any time!

Time can tick when there is no clock.

No one is safe from nature's savagery,not even the innocent. Only beauty is consistent. Gabrielle envisions a time when the Savage Garden will overtake civilizations and destroy it.

People write to me all the time to tell me that "homosexuality is an abomination." They base this on a quote in Leviticus. I think the Bible has proved to be a very mysterious and dangerous document.

To learn and to love, that is what we are here for, any activity which is not grounded in one of these two is a waste of time.

When you make his sandwiches, put a sexy or loving note in his lunch box.

Writers, as they gain success, feel like outsiders because writers don't come together in real groups.

For me, places have a tremendous impact. I fall in love with places. All of life seems different in different places.

I love New Orleans physically. I love the trees and the balmy air and the beautiful days. I have a beautiful house here.

I loved words. I love to sing them and speak them and even now, I must admit, I have fallen into the joy of writing them.