Louis de Pointe du Lac quotes from Interview with the Vampire

Louis

Paris in the 1940s with its permissive laissez-aller sexual atmosphere was the more formative liberation for me.

Are you one with Christ, Monsieur Lioncourt?

Louis de Pointe du Lac

How 'bout you shut your damn mouth?

Louis...

Lestat de Lioncourt

That's alright, Louis, Madame. The birds speak for him... I came to know Christ in a monastery. I wanted to be a priest. Just like you, Paul.

Lestat de Lioncourt

[Begins to hypnotize Paul] And under the guidance and discipline of the monks who lived there, I came to memorize both testaments, the writings of Assisi, Aquinas, Erasmus, all the saints and scholars. My father, a vulgar man, did not think much of this education. And so he and my brothers conspired to pull me out, lock me away, where, between beatings, starvations and the failure of Christ to intercede the beatings and starvations, I slowly forgot all about the testaments, Assisi, Aquinas, Erasmus, all of it. And so to answer your boring question, there is an ocean between Christ and myself! J'espère que cela satisfera les oiseaux perchés dans la cage de votre esprit!

Louis de Pointe du Lac

[Slams the table] Don't do that shit here! Not with my family. You understand?

Lestat de Lioncourt

[Long pause] I am cursed with my father's temper at times. The rudeness is all mine.

That's alright. It's the humidity, it does that sometimes.

Lestat de Lioncourt

Seul l'impossible peut faire l'impossible.

Lily

I don't know much what you're saying, but it sure sounds nice.

Louis de Pointe du Lac

'Only the impossible can do the impossible.'

Lestat de Lioncourt

Bonsoir, monsieur. You speak French?

Lily

We speak all sorts of tongues in New Orleans.

Louis de Pointe du Lac

It's a hard table to get. How'd you manage it?

Lestat de Lioncourt

How'd you manage to get yourself through the front door?

Louis de Pointe du Lac

Excuse me?

Lestat de Lioncourt

I mean that as a compliment, a man of your race to have privileges here.

Lily

Louis has a small empire of his own down the street. It gives him privileges. [Lestat laughs]

Louis de Pointe du Lac

Somethin' funny about that?

Lestat de Lioncourt

Your name is Louis. Of course it's Louis.

Louis de Pointe du Lac

I didn't get your name, fella.

Lestat de Lioncourt

Je suis désolé. Je m'amuse trop en privé. I know who you are, sir. You're the man who made me buy a townhouse in the Quarter. I owe you everything. Please join us.

Louis de Pointe du Lac

You hit an alderman? Goddamnit, Bricks.

He stuck it in my shitbox!

I did no such thing!

Gave him a chance to pull out and he kept on fuckin', so I gave him a little squirt of my catfish dinner for goin' there. Don't believe me? Check his dick.

Louis de Pointe du Lac

Who the fuck you talkin' to? I ain't checkin' no man's dick. [Bricks raises Fenwick's shirt] Oh, goddamn.

[To Fenwick] Hell, I mighta even said yes if you would just ask. But I don't care who you is, you put a dick in an asshole without askin', that's against Jesus! Fuck you!

Louis de Pointe du Lac

You've had some health concerns of late.

Daniel Molloy

Whole planet's having a moment, I'd say.

Daniel Molloy

Here's another question: That's the sun out there; where's your coffin?

Louis de Pointe du Lac

You're standing in it.

Louis de Pointe du Lac

I couldn't believe it. Staring me down as his hands went wandering the seams of Miss Lily's dress. I wanted to take the end of my cane and slit his throat with it.

Daniel Molloy

Why didn't you?

Louis de Pointe du Lac

I couldn't move. My body was seized with weakness. His gaze tied a string around my lungs, and I found myself immobilized.

Daniel Molloy

You started hanging out.

Louis de Pointe du Lac

He was in love with my city and wanted to know everything he could about it.

Daniel Molloy

So you played docent to the gentleman vampire?

Louis de Pointe du Lac

He had not revealed his vampire nature yet.

Daniel Molloy

I'm assuming you only met at night.

Louis de Pointe du Lac

It's New Orleans. Days are for sleeping off the previous evening's damage.

Daniel Molloy

Perfect cover for a vampire.

Louis de Pointe du Lac

Racing ahead again, Mr. Molloy. Let the tale seduce you. Just as I was seduced.

Lestat de Lioncourt

New to the... the New World, I am.

Louis de Pointe du Lac

That explains the clothes.

Louis de Pointe du Lac

I'm switching rooms. I don't need to hear you and your good man making noise.

Grace de Pointe du Lac

You'd have to be home to hear that.

Louis de Pointe du Lac

I come home nights.

Grace de Pointe du Lac

You come home some nights. Out cattin' with some white man, I hear.

Louis de Pointe du Lac

He ain't white. He French.

Grace de Pointe du Lac

Oh, that's a new kind of white, is it? French white?

Louis de Pointe du Lac

He different.

Grace de Pointe du Lac

Invite him over for dinner. Mother loves European.

You still doing business with that man Lestat?

Louis de Pointe du Lac

Nah. Didn't work out.

That's good, 'cause he the Devil.

Louis de Pointe du Lac

You think everyone's the Devil.

Louis de Pointe du Lac

You did good gettin' off that boat when you did. St. Louis is dull as dishwater.

Lestat de Lioncourt

Yes, I feel quite at home here.

Louis de Pointe du Lac

When you were using drugs, Mr. Molloy, do you remember the best you ever had?

Daniel Molloy

Berkely, 1978, some Mexican black tar that Carly and Pedro were slinging.

Louis de Pointe du Lac

So imagine that flowing inside your veins again. Now, multiply it by miles to the rings of Saturn and back... He had taken what he called 'un petit coup,' the little drink. Not enough to kill me, but just enough to keep him fit. It takes an enormous amount of restraint for us, the little drink. For a human, experiencing it for the first time, it was... unsettling. And not for the physical toll it took on my body, which was significant, but for the feelings of intimacy it awoke within me. I had never allowed myself to feel emotionally close to anyone, much less a man. I had no room for feelings like these in my life. You could be a lot of things in New Orleans, but an openly gay Negro man was not one of 'em.

Lestat de Lioncourt

[In Paul's funeral procession] Mes condoléances.

Louis de Pointe du Lac

Pas ici.

Lestat de Lioncourt

An elegant coffin. Would you tell me where you purchased?

Louis de Pointe du Lac

Move on.

Lestat de Lioncourt

I wait on my balcony every night. You've been avoiding me.

Louis de Pointe du Lac

I have been occupied.

Lestat de Lioncourt

Miss Lily proved herself a poor substitute and I don't take kindly to being avoided.

Louis de Pointe du Lac

It's my brother's funeral!

Lestat de Lioncourt

Believe me when I tell you, your brother longed for that flagstone.