Anne Rice

“My own funeral, I'd like to be laid out in a coffin in my own house. I would like my coffin to be put in the double parlor, and I would like all the flowers to be white.”

“Would that death were like this. Would that one would sleep and sleep and sleep forever.”

“Merciful death. How you love your precious guilt”

“The atheism and nihilism of my earlier years now seems shallow, and even a bit cocky.”

“Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ask. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds -- justifications, confirmations, forms of consolation without which they can't go on. To really ask is...”

“I enjoy the Web site a lot and I like being able to talk to my readers. I've always had a very close relationship with them.”