The characters are copyrighted. It upsets me terribly to even think about fan fiction with my characters.

Her blood coursed through my veins sweeter than life itself. And as it did, Lestat's words made sense to me. I knew peace only when I killed and when I heard her heart in that terrible rhythm, I knew again what peace could be.

Goodnight sweet Prince, may flights of devils wing you to your rest....-Claudia DeLioncourt

I think all states really need to examine what they're doing and with what types of offenses,

In spite of all the refinements of society that conspired to make art the dizzying perfection of the string quartet or the sprawling grandeur of Fragonards canvases beauty was savage. It was as dangerous and lawless as the earth had been eons before man had one single coherent thought in his head or wrote codes of conduct on tablets of clay. Beauty was a Savage Garden.

In a long-term relationship, it's very easy to take each other for granted,

I wanted to write only for Jesus Christ.

I want to know, for example, why beauty exists," she said, "why nature continues to contrive it, and what is the link between the life of a lightning storm with the feelings these things inspire in us? If God does not exist, if these things are not unified into one metaphorical system, then why do they retain for us such symbolic power? Lestat calls it the Savage Garden, but for me that is not enough.

It's one of our top priorities for the coming year and probably many years after that.

It is surprising and it is dismaying when any of this happens regardless if its one or whatever time of the year it is.