Vampire Chronicles 1: Interview with the vampire

Both were moral decisions. Both served a higher good, in the mind of the artist. The conflict lies between the morals of the artist and the morals of society, not between aesthetics and morality. But often this isn’t understood; and here comes the waste, the tragedy.

Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.

his movement so graceful and so personal that at once it made me think of a lover

But more than sorrow for her, I felt pain that she would never know what had happened,

He had human problems, a blind father who did not know his son was a vampire and must not find out. Living in New Orleans had become too difficult for him, considering his needs and the necessity to care for his father, and he wanted Pointe du Lac.

As I told you, this vampire Lestat wanted the plantation.

“My last sunrise,” said the vampire. “That morning, I was not yet a vampire. And I saw my last sunrise.

Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.

I lived like a man who wanted to die but who had no courage to do it himself.

They would not know that he had become, finally, not a saint, but only a…fanatic.