“The young reinvent the universe,” he said. “And they give the new universe to us as their gift.” — Anne Rice Physics Copy Share Image
“Laura remarked that science was dependent upon poetry, that all scientific description was metaphoric.” — Anne Rice Poetry Copy Share Image
“I was feeling fear. Not a wild, mortal fear, but something cold like a hook in my side.” — Anne Rice Fear Copy Share Image
Like all strong people, she suffered always a measure of loneliness; she was a marginal outsider, a secret infidel of a certain… — Anne Rice Betrayal Copy Share Image
“My last sunrise,’ said the vampire. ‘That morning, I was not yet a vampire. And I saw my last sunrise.” — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“As we move on year by year in this life, we learn that telling doesn't necessarily purge; telling something is merely a… — Anne Rice Lestat Copy Share Image
Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“What lurked beneath my fancy frills, behind my quiet unquestioning eyes? Who was I? Had I no remembrance of a warmer flame… — Anne Rice Anne-rice Copy Share Image
“I was just walking around saying “We’re all gonna die!” I never got over it. I went to class, I did what… — Anne Rice Death Copy Share Image
“If you could see yourself, hear your own voice, your music. . you wouldn't see darkness. . you'd see an illumination that… — Anne Rice Beauty Copy Share Image
Lestat: I despise you! I ought to destroy you-finish what I started when I made you. Turn you into ashes and sift… — Anne Rice Ashes Copy Share Image
I will be the Vampire Lestat for all to see. A symbol, a freak of nature - something loved, something despised all… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Consequently, if you believe God made Satan, you must realize that all Satan's power comes from God and so that Satan is… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
[...] so important to believe in a concept of goodness, even if we make it up ourselves. We don't really make it… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“But let me be a lover in the Savage Garden with you, and the light that went out of life would come… — Anne Rice Life Copy Share Image
“God triumphs on the ruins of our plans'. And maybe that is what is happening here. We make blunders, we make mistakes,… — Anne Rice Failure Copy Share Image
I hear the birds singing. Listen. I hear them in their cage. The others-all our kind who know of her-they think of… — Anne Rice Bird Copy Share Image
“If drugs really numb your consciousness, they'd be a good thing. As it was, they slowed you down, confused you, kept you… — Anne Rice Drugs Copy Share Image
“Lie quiet and you will lapse back into peace again. Be like the god Heimdall before the battle call, so still that… — Anne Rice Peace Copy Share Image
“It was only that I’d suffered like that, hour after hour, that I’d gone into the circle of hell and come back… — Anne Rice Loneliness Copy Share Image
Louis: You see that old woman? That will never happen to you. You will never grow old, and you will never die.… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
as they die, the ones we love, we lose our witnesses, our watchers, those who know and understand the tiny little meaningless… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“Who else would live in such an unguarded place except a woman for whom the forest was the world, he figured. And… — Anne Rice Children Copy Share Image
My own funeral, I'd like to be laid out in a coffin in my own house. I would like my coffin to… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“Go ahead, throw this book away. Spit on me. Revile me. I dare you. Cast me out of your intellectual orbit. Throw… — Anne Rice Book Copy Share Image
“The explanation of evil is a hell of a lot more disappointing than that. It's blunders, people making blunders, whether it's raiding… — Anne Rice Blunders Copy Share Image
We’re going to die and not even know. We’ll never know, and all this meaninglessness will just go on and on and… — Anne Rice Giving Copy Share Image
Revenge is the concern of those who are at some point or other beaten. I am not beaten, I told myself. No,… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
…being an atheist required discipline very like that of being Catholic. One could never yield to the idea of a supernatural authority,… — Anne Rice Atheist Copy Share Image
This is a lyrical guide that addresses the deep human yearning to make a difference. It's full of indelible stories reminding us… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
It seems an insult to the night to speak of purpose and intent, when this common moment is so brimming full of… — Anne Rice Blessed Copy Share Image
Something in me was responding now as the audience responded, not in fear, but in some human way, to the magic of… — Anne Rice Audience Copy Share Image
“I mean that one cannot expect to possess knowledge which does not change one. Once one knows, then one is acting upon… — Anne Rice Knowledge Copy Share Image
“No, but one can feel desperate at any age, don’t you think? The young are eternally desperate,” he said frankly. “And books,… — Anne Rice Anne-rice Copy Share Image
“There's a bitter cold in me, a cold which comes from a distant land. And nothing ever really makes it warm. You… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Suppose death had a heart to love and to release you, to whom would he turn this passion, would you chose a… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“For what secrets, what truths had those monstrous creatures of night to give us? What, of necessity, must be their terrible limits,… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“It was almost as if he had become, in his inveterate goodness, a little bit of a simpleton as is bound to… — Anne Rice Goodness Copy Share Image
“But I lived a lie. I lived it out of anger. This is what I am trying to tell you. I have… — Anne Rice Lies Copy Share Image
“There are ways to live this life, and my way has always been one of inclusion—of our own kind, of all humankind,… — Anne Rice Life Copy Share Image