Anne Rice

To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself.

It is tragic that many in America think of us - Christians - as being people who hate others.

Re-telling the Christian story is the essence of my vocation. That has been going on since the Evangelists in one form or another.

I didn't have a catharsis for my childhood pain, most of us don't, and until I learned how to forgive those people and let it go, I was unhappy.

I think that, in almost all human beings, there is buried a profound tribal instinct that makes us very susceptible to being aroused to patriotic fervour.

It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with.