Anne Rice

To die or not to die, that is the question; it is nobler to live in torment and rage than not to live at all?

Should we put out the light? And then put out the light. But once put out thy light, I cannot give it vital breath again. It needs must wither.

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

Ah, come now. I look like an angel, but I'm not. The old rules of nature encompass many creatures like me. We're beautiful like the diamond-backed snake, or the striped tiger, yet we're merciless killers.

Goddamn it, do it yourself. You’re five hundred years old and you can’t use a telephone? Read the directions. What are you, an immortal idiot?

As they die, the ones we love, we lose our witnesses, our watchers, those who know and understand the tiny little meaningless patterns, those words drawn in water with a stick. And there is nothing left but the endless flow.