Anne Rice Quotes

The person most in control is the person who can give up control.

He's really sort of the devil. He's completely emotionally detached. He has no empathy. You find that in psychopaths. It's about power with Voldemort. It's an aphrodisiac for him. Power makes him feel alive.

Men are like lions. We hunt.

Big Brother doesn't like all these Little Brothers looking at it.

Warhol was the ultimate voyeur, constantly observing people through the lens. He watched and listened, but did not participate. Behind the camera, Warhol was in control.

In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined.

The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.

They politics like ours profess, the greater prey upon the less.

Are you eating it? Or is it eating you?

Go about absolutely incognito. You must ferret the people out of their hovels as I have done, look into their kettles, eat their bread, loll in their beds under pretense of resting yourself, but in fact to find out if they are soft. You will find a more sublime pleasure … when you shall be able to apply your knowledge to the softening of their beds and the throwing a morsel of meat into their kettles ….

We lead them to believe that we are in complete control over every aspect of their lives.

It is the nature of government and of technology to establish control.

Representation is a sort of surveillance.

Even though you try to put people under control, it is impossible. You cannot do it. The best way to control people is to encourage them to be mischievous. Then they will be in control in a wider sense. To give your sheep or cow a large spacious meadow is the way to control him. So it is with people: first let them do what they want, and watch them. This is the best policy. To ignore them is not good. That is the worst policy. The second worst is trying to control them. The best one is to watch them, just to watch them, without trying to control them.

The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature: only then can he see clearly.

I've always found that you can control people better if you don't see too much of them.

She make me beg for it until she give it up

The native must realize that colonialism never gives anything away for nothing.

I've already said you can't take anything from me that I wouldn't freely give you.

He wanted her. He knew where to find her. He waited. It amused him to wait, because he knew that the waiting was unbearable to her. He knew that his absence bound her to him in a manner more complete and humiliating than his presence could enforce. He was giving her time to attempt an escape, in order to let her know her own helplessness when he chose to see her again.

To be given dominion over another is a hard thing; to wrest dominion over another is a wrong thing; to give dominion of yourself to another is a wicked thing.

My, aren't we bossy today. Give a girl an army and it goes straight to her head.

When I film, there are no emotions. That would be the last thing.

I own your pleasure," I whispered into his mouth. "I'll take it if you won't give it to me.

She watches him as a cat would watch a mouse.