I'm definitely more influenced by European writers than I am by American writers, there's no doubt about that. — Anne Rice American writer Copy Share Image
You are alone when something like this happens. Doesn't matter how many people love you and want to help you. You are… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
The evil of one murder is infinite, and my guilt is like my beauty - eternal. I cannot be forgiven, for there… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“Handsome enough’ is this Grim Reaper, Who can snuff all these ‘brief candles,’ every fluttering soul sucking the air, from this hall.” — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“People create these extravagant habitats because they have vision, love of beauty, hopes and dreams.” — Anne Rice Beauty Copy Share Image
“you do get wiser when you live for hundreds of years; but you also have more time to turn out as badly… — Anne Rice Wisdom Copy Share Image
The thing should have plot and character, beginning, middle and end. Arouse pity and then have a catharsis. Those were the best… — Anne Rice Catharsis Copy Share Image
“First and foremost, there is one God, and his name does not matter. Yahweh, Ahuramazda, Zeus, Aten, it does not matter at… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
And what constitutes evil, real evil, is the taking of a single human life. Whether a man would die tomorrow or the… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“...he didn't know where I lived, because I think he feared, in his heart of hearts, that I didn't trust him, that… — Anne Rice Love Copy Share Image
Who knew that better than I, who had presided over the death of my own body, seeing all I called human wither… — Anne Rice Body Copy Share Image
“Your soul is your inner being, your thinking, reasoning, loving, choosing inner being. Your capacity to stand up for what is right.… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“The Romans can not be condemned for the conquest of Egypt; we were conquered by time itself in the end. And all… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
I don't believe in anything, Mother," I said. "You told Armand long ago that you believe you'll find answers in the great… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“But the old Italian commedia that I loved—Pantaloon, Harlequin, Scaramouche, and the rest—lived on as they always had, with tightrope walkers, acrobats,… — Anne Rice Harlequin Copy Share Image
“He smiled suddenly and he looked as if he couldn’t hurt anyone for the world. He was too attractive, too friendly, too… — Anne Rice Lestat Copy Share Image
“All my life,I've been afraid of things, as a child and a woman must be. I lied about it naturally. I fancied… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Life has no meaning any more does it? The wine has no taste, the food sickens you, there seems no reason for… — Anne Rice Another life Copy Share Image
And then it was, that grief and pain made themselves known to me as never before. Note this, because I knew the… — Anne Rice Absurdity Copy Share Image
“...his hand spread itself out flat on the table. I paused and took another good look at him. There was something otherworldly… — Anne Rice Faith Copy Share Image
“Dig deep, deep, my soul, to find the heart--the blood, the heat, the shrine and resting place. Dig deep, deep into the… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“I saw the great sparkling orbs of his eyes, the tiny red veins that reached for the dark centers, that warm hand… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“I realized aloud in the midst of saying it that even when we die we probably don't find out the answer as… — Anne Rice Afterlife Copy Share Image
“The Cardinal was bent over his writing desk, the room unchanged save for the light of what appeared a small antique oil… — Anne Rice Anne-rice Copy Share Image
“all you have to lose in death, no matter how long you’ve lived, is the present moment in which you die.” — Anne Rice Death Copy Share Image
“Nosotros no estamos condenados. Nunca lo hemos estado. ¿Quién tiene derecho a condenar a ninguna criatura viviente?” — Anne Rice Amor Copy Share Image
“But know this. All is speculation under the sky. All myth, all religion, all philosophy, all history - is lies.” — Anne Rice History lies Copy Share Image
“To die or not to die, that is the question; it is nobler to live in torment and rage than not to… — Anne Rice Death Copy Share Image
I read The Old Curiosity Shop before I began Blackwood Farm. I was amazed at the utter madness in that book. — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“But remember the overall lesson, that your love for others, and their love for you, that the increase of love in life… — Anne Rice Armand Copy Share Image
Garden of Pain, I need you. What were the songs of beasts to the cries of sentient souls? — Anne Rice Beast Copy Share Image
Come on, say it again. I'm a perfect devil. Tell me how bad I am. It makes me feel so good! — Anne Rice Devil Copy Share Image
I know nothing of God or the Devil. I have never seen a vision nor learned a secret that would damn or… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“It's always the young ones who end it. The ones for whom mortality holds magic. As we grow older it's eternity that… — Anne Rice Death Copy Share Image
What I did was take the Jesus of the Gospels, the Son of God, the Son of the Virgin Mary, and sought… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
One tiny flame could make so many other flames; one tiny flame could set afire a whole world. — Anne Rice Fire Copy Share Image
You make me miserable. You really do, I want you to know that. Much as I love you, much as I need… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“Maybe that was all there ever will be just that one weekend and forever this unfinished feeling...” — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“It will never again be what it was. It’s a wonder that I didn’t foresee the cataclysm, but then I never really… — Anne Rice Cataclysm Copy Share Image
“I was too miserable to take much consolation just from feeling good for a moment in a welter of shudders and salted,… — Anne Rice Consolation Copy Share Image
