1,174 Quotes by Anne Rice

To be human, that's what most of us long for. It is the human which has become myth to us.

The power of Satan will blast you into hell,' the boy bellowed, gathering his remaining strength.'You keep saying that!' I said. 'And it keeps not happening, as we can all see!

Lestat, you are the damnedest creature!' he whispered under his breath. 'You are a brat prince.

But you love books, then,” Aunt Queen was saying. I had to listen.“Oh, yes,” Lestat said. “Sometimes they are the only thing that keeps me alive.”“What a strange thing to say at your age,” she laughed.“No, but one can feel desperate at any age, don’t you think? The young are eternally desperate,” he said frankly. “And books, they offer one hope —- that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that new universe, one is saved.

Ah forever!" I said. "I have such a love of that word, forever.""Yes, it is a timeless word," he said, raising his mossy eyebrows as he looked at me. "Time is ours, but forever belongs to God, don't you think?

What is written beneath this heavy handsome book cover will count, so sayeth this cover…

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

Actors and actresses make magic,' I said. 'They make things happen on the stage; they invent; they create.

And this notion of the meaninglessness of our lives here began to enflame us.I took up the theme again that music and acting were good because they drove back chaos. Chaos was the meaninglessness of day-to-day life, and if we were to die now, our lives would have been nothing but meaninglessness.