Daniel Molloy quotes from Interview with the Vampire

Daniel Molloy

You were the prince of your district. Lestat chased an American icon out of town because he loved you. 1917 doesn't sound like it was such a bad year.

Louis de Pointe du Lac

Rigged to burn, Daniel.

Rashid

How is your reading coming along?

Daniel Molloy

For a killing machine, I kinda like her.

Louis de Pointe du Lac

Vivid writer, isn't she? A singular style.

Daniel Molloy

Anne Frank meets Stephen King.

Rashid

It's Venetian. A contemporary of Tintoretto's.

Daniel Molloy

"Marius de Romanus." Never heard of him.

Rashid

Little of his work survives. Mr. de Pointe du Lac covets the rare.

Daniel Molloy

So, it begs the question, where were all these diaries in 1973?

Louis de Pointe du Lac

Scattered. One in New Orleans, another in Paris.

Daniel Molloy

Bullshit.

Louis de Pointe du Lac

[Long pause] Claudia was... everything. I loved her unconditionally. All the noise, the chaos, the crisis of my former existence, silenced. The simple joy of her hand in mine.

Daniel Molloy

You had a daughter.

Louis de Pointe du Lac

I had a daughter.

Daniel Molloy

I've got two. The love is kind of...

Louis de Pointe du Lac

And if you were to come across their diaries and learn, in detail, how and when you failed them, would you share those failures with a brash young reporter you met at Polynesian Mary's?

Louis de Pointe du Lac

Charlie's death ushered in one of the darkest eras in our lives. The oh-so-delicate balance of our oh-so-delicate household was shattered. The fantasy of happiness burst. Claudia was...

Daniel Molloy

A band-aid for a shitty marriage?

Louis de Pointe du Lac

I was going to say... something else. But yes, that's almost certainly what she felt like.

Daniel Molloy

Look, Charlie Manson wrote a couple of beautiful songs. Still, he was Charlie Manson.

Louis de Pointe du Lac

Is that all you think of her?

Daniel Molloy

Mostly. I also think she makes you an Frenchy look like a couple of whiny, existential queens. Probably why she's a fuckin' gold mine. The girl who moves a million books.

Louis de Pointe du Lac

I won't have her exploited.

Daniel Molloy

Won't matter what your intentions are. It's the world out there now. She's the single-shooter, Xbox, mouth-breather shit they crave.

Louis de Pointe du Lac

You can put the diaries in a proper context.

Daniel Molloy

Context. Sure. Warn the world about a forthcoming apocalypse. Or maybe inspire a line of sexy Claudia Halloween costumes. Or a cool dismemberment trend amongst the suburban Sylvia Plath set. Once you put it out there, they decide what it is. It can get away from you.

Rashid

What do you think will happen to Mr. du Lac when you publish this book and the other vampires of the world get their hands on it?

Daniel Molloy

As long as they pay full freight.

Louis de Pointe du Lac

I had no words for her. What words were there? 'It all happened so fast.' 'I was trying to save you.' 'All vampires are born out of trauma.' We made her out of remorse. Out of selfishness.

Daniel Molloy

Poor dear. She wasn't held enough between ritualistic murders.

Louis de Pointe du Lac

She spent every night for half a decade with no friends, locked in the emotional storm of puberty.

Daniel Molloy

Look, Charlie Manson wrote a couple of beautiful songs. Still, he was Charlie Manson.

Louis de Pointe du Lac

Is that all you think of her?

Daniel Molloy

Mostly. I also think she makes you and Frenchy look like a couple of whiny, existential queens.

Louis de Pointe du Lac

Is your medicine taking?

Daniel Molloy

It's cold and itchy. Thanks for asking.

Louis de Pointe du Lac

Are you still dreaming about our first meeting, Daniel?

Daniel Molloy

I keep waking up just before you ask me back to your shitty apartment.

Daniel Molloy

Hey, Doc, did you know there's a flying vampire apocalypse coming your way?

Louis de Pointe du Lac

Most vampires do not possess the Cloud Gift. With few exceptions, only the most ancient of us have it.

Daniel Molloy

You know he's a vampire, right?

Dr. Fareed Bhansali

I do not discuss my patients with anyone but the patients themselves.

Daniel Molloy

[to the recorder] That's the voice of Dr. Fareer Bhansali...

Dr. Fareed Bhansali

That is not my voice.

Daniel Molloy

...He's the personal physician to the deputy prime minister and...

Dr. Fareed Bhansali

And I am not here.

Daniel Molloy

...the vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac.

Rashid

He's officially off the record.

Daniel Molloy

NDAs signed by any and all who cross the threshold, eh?

Daniel Molloy

Can you fly, Louis?

Louis de Pointe du Lac

No.

Daniel Molloy

So for twenty years, you lived with the vampire Lestat and you didn't know he had the flying gift?

Louis de Pointe du Lac

The Cloud Gift. And yes, it was a remarkable bit of restraint he managed.

Daniel Molloy

Why would he do that?

Louis de Pointe du Lac

I suppose he thought if he exposed all his power to me, I would never feel his equal and the relationship would suffer.

Daniel Molloy

'He only beat me the one time, Officer. It's not his fault.' Classic Stockholm, eh, Doc?

Dr. Fareed Bhansali

I am not here.

Daniel Molloy

He could fly?

Louis de Pointe du Lac

Yes.

Daniel Molloy

Like Superman?

Louis de Pointe du Lac

Not like Superman. Superman is a fictional character.

Daniel Molloy

But in the air with a 'fuck you to Newtonian physics' flying?

Louis de Pointe du Lac

He said it was more like floating, arising at will, propelling in a direction by the decision. He called it 'the Cloud Gift.'

Dr. Fareed Bhansali

Pleasure never meeting you, Mr. Molloy.

Daniel Molloy

He said to no one.

Louis de Pointe du Lac

Quick and clever despite two bags of fluid.

Daniel Molloy

Legal dope makes me constipated, but the wit flows like a river.

Louis de Pointe du Lac

This is the part of my story, back in San Francisco, where you said, and I paraphrase, 'Give it to me. Make me a vampire now.'

Daniel Molloy

In the eyes of a 20-year-old, you were wasting the gift.

Louis de Pointe du Lac

You're in your twenties, Rashid. What do you think?

Rashid

Well, Mr. du Lac presides in the most desired real estate in the country. I do not see the waste Mr. Molloy sees.

Daniel Molloy

Yeah, well, he lived in a dump the last time we did this.