“But know this. All is speculation under the sky. All myth, all religion, all philosophy, all history - is lies.” — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil... Evil is always possible. And goodness is… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
I have to move away from organized religion. The toxic confusion and anger I was feeling in church had become too great. — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
The greatest create of power you have on earth, whether you are an angel, a spirit, a man or woman or child… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Writers write about what obsesses them. You draw those cards. I lost my mother when I was 14. My daughter died at… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
I tell you, we would be hard put to determine what is more evil -- religion or the pure idea. The intervention… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“Look on the effect of your religions, those movements that have swept up millions with their fantastical claims. Look at what they… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“God is a creative force, Lestat. And so are we. He told Adam, 'Increase and multiply.' That's what the first organic cells… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“I explained that often when we revealed ourselves to mortals we drove them mad—for we were unnatural beings, and yet we did… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Maybe a new religion will rise now. Maybe without it, man will crumble in cynicism and selfishness because he really needs his… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Don't you see? I'm not the spirit of any age. I'm at odds with everything and always have been! I have never… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
The spirit who inhabits her animates us all. Destroy the host, you destroy the power. The young die first; the old wither… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
I was obsessed with religious questions, the basics: Why are we here? Why is the world so beautiful? — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
I no longer represent any organized religion. I'm not Catholic. I'm not Christian. I'm saying this because I have to be an… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Let the spirits witness: for theirs is the knowledge of the future - both what it would be, and what I will:… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“I touched the small sacred images. I shook my head and bit my lip, as if to say, How awful that he… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“And no small part of this unpredicted miracle was the curious innocence of these people in the very midst of their freedom… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“But complex and fanciful religions have been founded upon such simple and deceptive experiences, giving mythical names to vague entities, and creating… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“The family was not just the family to them; it was the clan; the nation; the religion; the obsession. I” — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“It’s an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater luster to our colors, a richer resonance to our words.… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
I cannot mislead people into believing that I support organized religion. In Jesus' name, I cannot be complicit with many of the… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
When you find out there is no ultimate good and evil in which you can place your faith, the world does not… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“I think this is a very important thing to understand about Christianity. It was from its very beginnings, it seems, a religion… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“There had never been any talent, any talent to draw or paint or to make music or to write or to make any of… — anne rice Copy Share Image
“there are only two things which I believe—the first is that no mortal can refuse the Dark Gift once he really knows what it… — Anne Rice 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 you can… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
All the stories I have told you are finally as useless as all ancient knowledge is to man and to us. Its images and… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
If you want to be a writer, write. Write and write and write. If you stop, start again. Save everything that you write. If… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
How can so much beauty hide such a bruised and steely heart, and why must I love him, why must I lean in my… — Anne Rice 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 as your… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“I don't need to sleep to play. I'm crazy anyway. Being crazier still could only help.” — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“what I felt was inexpressible gratitude for the music, that in this horror there could be something as beautiful as that.” — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
