I am lord and master of my own island, I am the Devil’s minion and he grants my every wish.

Daniel’s dinner was already ordered. Please sit down. Did Daniel know that Interview with the Vampire was in the bookstores?

(ARMAND) In middle school, you stole your dad’s Playboy magazines, sold them at recess. A little dirty, a little deceitful, but it’s enterprising. Is that what makes you fascinating? (DANIEL) How are you–

It is bound to produce some great fund of common knowledge, some new level of human awareness, a curious skepticism, to be so alone.

We lived six and seven to a room in those days, when I was still among the living. The city streets were seas of humanity; and now in these high buildings dim-witted souls hover in luxurious privacy, gazing through the television window at a faraway world of kissing and touching.

(DANIEL) How did the coven take it? (ARMAND) With good grace. (LOUIS) They were bitter.

Armand was gently pulling him out of the path. Frightened people thundered past as if driven by a wind. He felt himself fall. But Armand caught him.

You want to know the key difference? There is a horrifying loneliness at work in this time.

(DANIEL) The play was a hit? (ARMAND) An unmitigated hit.

“But the Venice of your time, tell me...” “What? That it was dirty? That it was beautiful? That people went about in rags with rotting teeth and stinking breath and laughed at public executions?”

(DANIEL) And how did she like being infantilized? (ARMAND) Coven life required letting go of the self. She carried her water uphill… (LOUIS) She had issues with it.

ARMAND stares intensely at DANIEL, rising up the chair.

(DANIEL) Arguing as foreplay.