1,174 Quotes by Anne Rice

To be godless is probably the first step to innocence," he said, "to lose the sense of sin and subordination, the false grief for things supposed to be lost." So by innocence you mean not an absence of experience, but an absence of illusions." An absence of need for illusions," he said. "A love of and respect for what is right before your eyes.

... what I fear in writing is the safe decision.

The supernatural world has always been more real to me than the real world.

The library furnished our dreams, helped us shape our ambitions, made up people of books and ideas and grand designs.

I am certain a great many believers and bible readers do believe in social justice.

The evil of one murder is infinite, and my guilt is like my beauty - eternal. I cannot be forgiven, for there is no one to forgive me for all I've done.

I was typing away while everybody was dropping acid and smoking grass. I was known as my own square.

We breathe the light, we breathe the music, we breathe the moment as it passes through us.

Oh, my darling, wish you were here! And my dark soul is happy again, because it does not know how to be anything else for very long, and because the pain is a deep dark sea in which I would drown if I did not sail my little craft steadily over the surface, steadily towards a sun which will never rise.