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.

When I do my makeup, it kind of helps me get into the character that I'm trying to portray.

We define ourselves as intelligent. That's odd, because we're doing the definition - We're creating our own definition and saying, 'We are intelligent!'

The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.