1,174 Quotes by Anne Rice

This evil, this concept, it comes from disappointment, from bitterness! Don't you see? Children of Satan! Children of God! Is this the only question you bring to me, is this the only power that obsesses you, so that you must make us gods and devils yourself when the only power that exists is inside ourselves? How could you believe in these old fantastical lies, these myths, these emblems of the supernatural?

Whipping is fifty percent show and noise.

I have to move away from organized religion. The toxic confusion and anger I was feeling in church had become too great.

Everyone is a potential naked slave to you once you become a trainer.

Hell's Bells ringing, my secret music...

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.

If I am an angel, paint me with black wings.

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

I was the vampire Lestat again. I was back in action. New Orleans was once again my hunting ground.