I was a newborn vampire, weeping at the beauty of the night.

It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.

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.