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.

‘I’d like to meet the devil some night,’ he said once with a malignant smile. ‘I’d chase him from here to the wilds of the Pacific. I am the devil.’

“It sounds as if it was like being in love.”

It was the blood passing too rapidly into my own blood,

‘He’ll suck you right down into death with him if you cling to him in death

don’t fall so madly in love with the night that you lose your way!’

I opened my eyes and checked myself in a moment of reaching for his wrist, grabbing it, forcing it back to my mouth at all costs;

I remember that the movement of his lips raised the hair all over my body, sent a shock of sensation through my body that was not unlike the pleasure of passion….”

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