1,174 Quotes by Anne Rice

He says things like the orchestra is generating a soul, a collective soul, an entity. I ask him what that means. He says consciousness generates soul.

I dream the dreams of the young,’ he said. ‘And they are always dreams of being older, and richer, and wiser, and stronger, don’t you think?

Aren’t there gradations of evil? Is evil a great perilous gulf into which one falls with the first sin, plummeting to the depth?

Nothing vanishes quite like pain – when pain does vanish, that is. Because most of the time pain never does.

I don’t like myself you know. I love myself. I’m devoted to myself till my dying day. But I don’t like myself.

But I lived a lie. I lived it out of anger. This is what I am trying to tell you. 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. Oh the lies I have told myself and others. I knew it yet I didn’t know.

I’ve lived all these years among those who create nothing and change nothing,′ I said. ‘Actors and musicians-they’re saints to me.

Lestat: Toughen up baby. I’m looking for the eternal scum.

You will learn as you get older, my dear girl, that not everyone reads as you do. Not everyone has the same encounter with language.