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.

realized that I was his complete superior and I had been sadly cheated in having him for a teacher.

I had several extremely intelligent slaves who might have done his job just as well a long time before, if I had recognized their intelligence and not feared their African appearance and manner.

And the boy sat motionless regarding him, astonished.

round oak table,

I had a strong sense of him then, the separate being that he was, the calm and collected creature with the straight auburn hair and the large, sometimes melancholy eyes, eyes that seemed often to be seeing nothing but their own thoughts.

That passivity in me has been the core of it all, the real evil.

it amazes me, how in your complexity you are so profoundly simple

She’s an era for you, an era of your life.