For several long moments we remained locked together, and I think I covered her hair with small sacred kisses, her perfume crucifying me with memories.

I think we are wise, we English speakers, to savor accents. They teach us things about our own tongue.

First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success.

We need to stop fighting Christian against Christian. I have no time for anything but trying to love other people. That is a full-time job.

The whole theme of Interview with the Vampire was Louis's quest for meaning in a godless world. He searched to find the oldest existing immortal simply to ask, What is the meaning of what we are?

What I did was take the Jesus of the Gospels, the Son of God, the Son of the Virgin Mary, and sought to make Him utterly believable, a vital breathing character.